by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
I sent my Soul through the Invisible
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell, And by and by my Soul return'd to me And answer'd: I myself am Heav'n and Hell.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 66, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 66, first published 1868 [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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