by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
Waste not your hour, nor in the vain...
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
Waste not your hour, nor in the vain pursuit Of This and That endeavour and dispute; Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 56, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 54, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 54, 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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