by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste
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Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
One Moment in Annihilation's Waste, One Moment, of the Well of Life to taste -- The Stars are setting and the Caravan Starts for the Dawn of Nothing -- Oh, make haste!
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- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 38, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 49, 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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