by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
For some we loved, the loveliest and the...
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
For some we loved, the loveliest and the best That from his Vintage rolling Time has prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest.
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 21, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 22, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 22, second and third 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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