by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Alike for those who for TO‑DAY prepare
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There!"
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 24, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 27, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 25, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 25, second, third, fourth editions, first published 1859 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
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- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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