by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122)
Translation by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883)
The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars...
Language: English after the Persian (Farsi)
The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw, And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew -- I saw the solitary Ringdove there, And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo."
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Text Authorship:
- by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 20, first published 1868 [author's text checked 1 time against a primary source]
Based on:
- a text in Persian (Farsi) by Hakim Omar Khayyám (c1048 - c1122) [text unavailable]
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