Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many a Knot unravel’d by the Road;
But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.

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• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 31, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 31 [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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• by Henry Houseley (1852? - 1925), "Part 4", published 1917 [ soli, chorus, orchestra ], from cantata Omar Khayyám, no. 4, New York : H. W. Gray
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• Also set in English, a translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883) , no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 31, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 34, first edition, first published 1859 ; composed by Granville Ransome Bantock, Sir.
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• Also set in French (Français), a translation by Frédéric Roger-Cornaz (1883 - 1970) , appears in Omar Khayyám. Les Rubáiyát, Paris, Éd. Librairie Payot et Cie ; composed by René Lenormand.
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