RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
rubaiyat of omar 
 khayyam, transla- 
 ted by justin huntly 
 McCarthy, m.r 
 
 ( UNJ 
 
 PUBLISHED BY DAVID NUTT 
 IN THE STRAND, MDCCCLXXXIX 
 

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 INTRODUCTION. 
 
 I SHALL NEVER FORGET THE DAY 
 WHEN I FIRST MADE ACQUAINTANCE 
 WITH OMAR KHAYYAM. IT WAS YEARS 
 AGO, "I SHALL NOT SAY HOW MANY, 
 BUT NOT MANY," THAT FITZGERALD'S 
 TRANSLATION WAS LENT TO ME TO 
 READ BY A YOUNG LADY WHO HAS 
 SINCE BEEN FOUND " DEAR TO THE 
 MUSES," AND WHOM DESTINY HAD 
 EVIDENTLY MARKED OUT FOR SYM- 
 PATHY WITH PERSIAN SCHOLARSHIP, 
 MISS MARY ROBINSON, THE CHARMING 
 POETESS, WHO IS NOW THE WIFE OF 
 THE DISTINGUISHED ORIENTALIST, MR. 
 DARMESTETTER. SHE HAD HERSELF, 
 IF I REMEMBER RIGHTLY, BEEN IN- 
 TRODUCED TO OMAR BY THE I. ATE MR. 
 
RARE 
 
 U'.ll.l 1 IES HAM INI Ml [CAB] V I II 1 
 M\KK UPON 1111 riME 1 HAN- 
 MI'. HI HAM 
 
 -\\ 11IAI THE RUBAIYAT WERE A 
 TO ME AND THAI 1 
 ED 1 111. REVEJ ATION WOULD BE 
 1 \ PIT1FU1 AND 
 
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 rill I N( H wii D CHALICE OF II IV- 
 
 :i i>. \- !■ >YOUSl '> 
 
 IN ini INTOXICA- 
 
 M I N E T< I 
 
 A II A I M(»I |:\ 
 
 1 PAR II I' WITH I I : 
 
 ! DIL\ 1! • \K OV MY 
 
 ■'.nil [NFINIT1 
 
 I M \I'I A SMAI I « U'\ WHICH I 
 
 I will! Ml. CARRIED 
 
 Willi Ml in WAND] RIN I I \l \ 
 
 ■ 
 
 \ III 
 
IN ALL MANNER OF FAIR ITALIAN 
 CITIES, TILL EVEN NOW THE WINDS 
 OF VERONA AND THE WATERS OF 
 VENICE AND " PRAECEPS ANIO " SEEM 
 TO BEAR THE BURDEN RATHER OF 
 THE DEAR OLD PERSIAN SINGER THAN 
 ANY ECHO OF ROMEO, OR TASSO, OR 
 HORACE. I MADE MYSELF A KIND OF 
 LITTLE RELIGION OUT OF OMAR; I 
 BECAME A BURDEN TO MY FRIENDS ; 
 
 MY WRITINGS FOR I WROTE EVEN IN 
 
 THOSE DAYS — SEEMED WITH THE PER- 
 SISTENCY OF HOTSPUR'S STARLING TO 
 DO LITTLE SAVE ECHO THE NAME OF 
 OMAR. 
 
 FROM THE OMAR OF FITZGERALD'S 
 INCOMPARABLE VERSE TO OMAR HIM- 
 SELF, THE REAL OMAR IN HIS NATIVE 
 PERSIAN WAS A STEP, BUT A HARD 
 STEP. I PLUNGED INTO PERSIAN FOR 
 OMAR'S SAKE; I STRUGGLED WITH 
 
 IX 
 
SCRIPT OK THE EAST : 
 OF MR. WHIN- 
 . THEN OF MI- 
 'S, l ill. ONE ACCOMPANIED BY A 
 NGUSH VI RSE, THE 
 OTHER BY A TRANSLATION IN FRENCH 
 ■ ■ ! I II THES1 , IN SUI H LEISURE 
 IND, AND Al LONG IN- 
 MV PERSIAN 
 1-DAY I- A I Mil BEST BUT 
 \KIA\ BUT SUCH AS n is IT HAS 
 ME IMlMli: PLEASURE. i 
 ; a 1 1 1 1 ii. m arer ro mi: 
 . USHAPUR ; I I ARE 
 . HIM BETTER, 1 
 '.i 5A^ I LOV1 HIM Bl 1 1 1 K ; 
 \\ 1 HAT I H.W 1 READ MORE 
 :\| ? Till ■ \i 1 ER] D 
 
 MEWED A I 
 .1 S 1 II - AT MY HAND, 
 \ I I IN, HERE 
 
WHAT IT IS WORTH AS FOR WHAT IT 
 WOULD BE WORTH. " TAKE THE WILL 
 FOR A BETTER DEED." SUCH AS IT 
 IS IT SETS FORTH THE MEANING OF 
 OMAR AS I COULD BEST FATHOM IT. 
 IT IS NO "CRIB" TO THE PERSIAN 
 TEXT, NO HARD AND FAST LITERAL 
 TRANSLATION. I HAVE SOUGHT TO 
 CONVEY THE MEANING OF MY POET AS 
 IT APPEARED TO ME ; I HAVE SET IT 
 DOWN IN PROSE, BECAUSE, FIRSTLY, 
 PROSE CAN GIVE THE MEANING MORE 
 NEARLY THAN ANY VERSE COULD GIVE 
 IT, SECONDLY, BECAUSE IT HAS NEVER 
 BEEN DONE IN ENGLISH PROSE, THIRD- 
 LY, BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN DONE IN 
 ENGLISH VERSE ONCE AND FOR EVER, 
 AND TO ATTEMPT VERSE AGAIN IS BUT 
 TO PUT ONESELF IN COMPARISON WITH 
 FITZGERALD WHICH, IN THE PITHY 
 PHRASE OF THE GREAT HELLENIC 
 HUMOURIST, " IS ABSURD." THINK 
 
 XI 
 
POOR RJ ' 
 PETALS GATH1 
 I HI. GRA\ E OF OMAR, 
 \M> PARDON THE FADED TROPHIES 
 
 nil living run . 
 
 : \v\.\M '* l- \ SIQUE 
 
 INI! > CAPTU 
 
 \ I \1 \ LIBELLI," 
 *-\II> Till AMIAB1 I rHAGINIAN 
 
 . 
 IN \N HI X AMI I ; WHICH 
 
 ; a i I v 
 
 RTAINLV I I u 
 
 FATE 
 
 KHAYYAM. 
 
 : VIII MK. I II.'..! R \l I. 
 
 \n \ i 01 
 kll \V\ \M It) MR. LI RNARD 
 ITCH, I ' 
 
 I i! \l I : 
 
AND KINGSHIP OF THE BOOK-WORLD 
 WHICH HE HAS SINCE REACHED. IT 
 WAS PRINTED AS A SMALL QUARTO 
 PAMPHLET, WITH THE PUBLISHER'S 
 NAME AND WITHOUT THE AUTHOR'S, 
 AND WAS A MOST UNCOMPROMISING, 
 HOPELESS, DISMAL FAILURE. IT FOUND 
 NO BUYERS AT ITS PUBLISHED PRICE 
 OF FIVE SHILLINGS, IT FOUND NO 
 BUYERS AT FOUR SHILLINGS, AT THREE 
 SHILLINGS \ IT RAN A RAPIDLY DE- 
 SCENDING SCALE WITHOUT APPEALING 
 TO THE PUBLIC, WHICH WOULD EVEN 
 HAVE NONE OF IT AT SIXPENCE. AT 
 LAST IT DROPPED INTO THAT PITIFUL 
 PURGATORY OF LUCKLESS BOOKS, THE 
 BOX MARKED " ALL THESE ONE PENNY 
 EACH," WHICH IS VERY MUCH MORE 
 THAN THREE STAGES MORE DEGRADED 
 THAN THE " FOURPENNY BOX " OF 
 WHICH MR. ANDREW LANG SINGS. AT 
 A PENNY EACH THE TWO HUNDRED 
 
 XIII 
 
COPIES OF OMAR KHAYYAM WHICH 
 HAD BEEN PRINTED WERE AT LAST 
 ED INI" THE HAM- OF A RE- 
 IN 1 PUB! It . AI IS, AND AI.AS ! 
 llll MAN WHO COULD BUY THOSE 
 II - BACK NOW AT 
 A GU1N1 \ A COPY WOULD BE MAKING 
 A MAGNIFICENT AND UNHAPPILY IMPOS- 
 SIBLE BARGAIN. THE LAS1 TIME I SAW 
 II [ON QUO] I D 
 IN A CAT/ IT WAS PRICED AT 
 
 INI \-, AND I 1 >;INK 
 
 i ii \i ii woui dii i \-v ro Gl I ONE 
 
 \i I HAT PRICE Now. EVEN THE 
 
 \;> I Dl I ION— WHICH, BY THE 
 
 IS \ \ l RY IMPOF l w l EDI Hon 
 
 — 1> I PRIN l \M' M( 1ST RARE, 
 
 AND 1 HI IIIIKD I Dl HON IS Wl 'Kill A 
 
 GUIN1 \ \ ( OPY. BU i rHIS IS \M in- 
 r\l [NG. win N l HE RUBATV \l ll \D 
 \i LAST ll I N DISPOSED I IF A i A 
 
 i \ ll i ll \M l D 1 HA1 
 
 XIV 
 
IT FELL INTO THE HANDS OF CERTAIN 
 VERY REMARKABLE MEN. DANTE 
 
 GABRIEL ROSSETTI, ALGERNON CHARLES 
 SWINBURNE AND CAPTAIN RICHARD 
 BURTON GOT COPIES OF THE BOOK, 
 AND, MEN OF GENIUS, RECOGNIZED ITS 
 GENIUS. ALL THREE POETS, THEY 
 SAW IN THE LITTLE BOOK THE WORK 
 OF A GREAT POET. TO THAT ONE OF 
 THE THREE WHO WAS DESTINED TO 
 BE A MOST ILLUSTRIOUS ORIENTALIST 
 THE MARVELLOUS BEAUTY AND TRUTH 
 OF ITS EASTERN ATMOSPHERE MUST 
 HAVE BEEN ESPECIALLY APPARENT. 
 EACH OF THE THREE MEN HAD A 
 GREAT INFLUENCE UPON THE ARTISTIC 
 THOUGHT OF THE TIME, EACH OF THEM 
 AVOWED HIMSELF AN IMPASSIONED 
 DISCIPLE OF OMAR AND HIS UNKNOWN 
 TRANSLATOR, EACH OF THEM PREACHED 
 OMARISM TO HIS FRIENDS AND FOL- 
 LOWERS. IN A LITTLE WHILE THE 
 
 XV 
 
KHAYYAMISTS M\I> SWELLED FROM \ 
 MERE HANDFUL OF MEN TO A CROW- 
 IN'; ARMY, AND SOON IT BECAME CLEAR 
 IH\I A REPRINT OF THE ONCE RE- 
 D RUBAIYAT was a NECESSITY. 
 IN MDCCCI Win in WD EDI I ION < 
 
 a \- rii.i [SHI D, I NLARGED AND j 
 
 ...I \ Ml: ALWAYS WITH 
 
 Nl> A 
 
 . l I A I I. FROM III!. OLD : 
 
 ! I) RAPIDLY I N'T., 11 m CA1 I 
 
 !<>K A NEW EDITION IN MDCCCLXXII, 
 
 wii 11 M 1:1 Ml K All ERATIONS WHICH 
 
 N : l HE All llok'> 1 INAi. FORM, 
 
 \> I l \i \i :. . 
 
 I Ml I OUR! H I hi l ION OF MDCXX l XXIX, 
 
 BY Mil I 1MI. I 111 I HIKH EDI I ION W \S 
 
 IND "1 
 
 R \l D W \- 11 IS 
 
 CHARACTERISTIC "! Mil MAN IHAI 
 
 NON1 OF l in l I'll IONS BORE FITZ- 
 
 ..I K \l D*S N \M1 I TON 1 111 HI I 1 PAGE 
 
 N\ I 
 
THE FAME WAS TO BE THE FAME OF 
 OMAR, AND ONLY TO A COMPARATIVELY 
 FEW FOR A LONG TIME WAS THE 
 NAME KNOWN OF THE ANONYMOUS 
 MAN OF GENIUS WHO HAD GIVEN 
 OMAR KHAYYAM A NICHE IN THE 
 PANTHEON OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. 
 FOR EXAMPLE, THE REV. E. H. PLUM- 
 TRE, IN HIS EDITION OF THE BOOK 
 OF ECCLESIASTES FOR THE CAMBRIDGE 
 BIBLE SERIES DRAWS AN ELABORATE 
 AND INTERESTING PARALLEL BETWEEN 
 THE UTTERANCES OF KOHELETH AND 
 THE VERSES OF OMAR. IT IS CURIOUS, 
 HOWEVER, TO NOTE THAT IN THIS 
 STUDY OF WHAT HE CALLS "A 
 PERSIAN KOHELETH OF THE 
 
 TWELFTH CENTURY," HE DOES NOT 
 SEEM TO BE AWARE OF THE NAM]; 
 OF THE TRANSLATOR OF THE RU- 
 BAIYAT ON WHICH HE BUILDS HIS 
 ARGUMENT. 
 
 XVII B 
 
II WOULD II. DIFFICULT INDEED TO 
 OVER ESTIMATE TUT. INFLUENCE OF 
 OMAR KHAYYAM UPON THE THOUGHT 
 
 \\I> I HE I Ml KM I - K 1 <>(• I HE DAY. 
 SWINBURNE, WHO HAS SO LARGELY 
 INI I HE I M I RARY FORM OF 
 
 I HI. GENERATION, WAS HIMSELF PRO- 
 IDLY [Ml UENCED BY OMAR, AND 
 Mil INFLUENCE MAY BE EASILY SEEN 
 IN III- EARLIER WORKS. HE WAS lHi: 
 
 1 DWARD 
 
 I K \I D, l<) M \Ki USE OF l HE 
 
 .!\ \1 I ORM "I \ ERSE IN " I AUS 
 
 \ I M KI>," IN lKoiii t i\.. INTO II AN 
 
 I -II 1 \K riSnC AMPLIFICATION 1\ 
 
 u HH H nil 1 HIRD lNkli\ MED UNE 
 
 HE PI RSIAN FORM RHYMI I> Wl HI 
 
 I III I HIRD i INI OF Ml' \\. \. 
 
 MR. J I'M I ND ■'• .1 Hi INK, 
 
 I III. M\l ro US! l ill l ORM IN l Hi. 
 
 CHARMING INTRODUCTION io HIS 
 
 IND1 PEND1 M V01 t Ml "i- > 
 
 \\ 111 
 
" on viol and flute. since then 
 it has practically taken its place 
 as one of the recognized forms 
 of english verse, and one, too, of 
 the most beautiful. i always 
 imagine that i can trace not a 
 resemblance, but a sympathy 
 between " felise " which i consider 
 to be perhaps the most beautiful 
 of mr. Swinburne's most beautiful 
 volume, and the rubaiyat of omar 
 khayyam. to mr. swinburne omar 
 owes the most eloquent tribute 
 in the english language, the 
 words which are to be found in 
 a note to the essay on blake, 
 there is no evidence that i can 
 trace of any omar influence in 
 rossettl's work, and, curiously 
 enough, his brother william 
 michael rossetti in his interest- 
 ing preface to the collected 
 
 XIX 
 
I DITION OF DANTE GABRIl LSWRI1 
 
 EVEN MI N 1 ION Mil 
 OF III-- EITHER READING OK ADMIRING 
 
 •' 'M \k KHAYYAM." I I I/'. I RA1 D'SNAME 
 
 IS MI. NIK INI D BUT <>NI V IN CONNEC- 
 
 : [ON WI I H ANOl HI R WORK. "I AI - 
 
 \. IN 1 I rZGERAl D'S 1 RANS1 A I l( »N, 
 
 HE ADMIRED Dl l PI Y : kit THIS was 
 
 ONLV \l \ LATER DATE," AND A I I w 
 
 I INI - I IK I II! '.. MK. YVII I LAM 
 
 i 1 1 ADDS I ill CURIOUS INI 0R- 
 
 M \l [ON l HAT HI HAD " I I lit I OR 
 
 I l Y ABOU1 0RI1 Nl Al —SUCH 
 
 tS IND1 \N, 11 RSI \N, OR ARA] 
 
 i 01 IKY." [HOSE who HAVE EVER 
 
 in I HE I l l [CITY OF 111 VRING 
 
 >IK RICHARD BURTON RECITE RUBAIYA1 
 
 I 'l OMAR IN nil ik SONOROUS 11 RSI \N. 
 
 know BEST Ills ADMIRATION FOR nil 
 
 N "I K P01 I. AND l 111 ESTIMA 
 
 in w lilt 11 HI ll"l DS HIM, 
 
 Y AN ADMIRJ R 01 OMAR KHAYYAM 
 
COULD HAVE WRITTEN THE KASIDAH 
 
 COUPLETS OF THAT HAJI ABDU EL 
 
 YEZDI, WHO MUST RANK IN THE 
 SHADOW-LAND OF MYTHICAL ORIENTALS 
 WITH MIRZA SCHAFFY, AND WHOSE 
 " LAY OF THE HIGHER LAW," KNOWN 
 TO THE FORTUNATE, REPRESENTS IN 
 VERSE OF INTENSELY EASTERN AROMA, 
 THE CREED OF EL HICHMAKANI, A 
 SURNAME OF HAJI ABDU, SIGNIFYING 
 OF " NO HALL NOWHERE." 
 
 THE HOUR IS NIGH : THE WANING QUEEN 
 WALKS FORTH TO RULE THE LATER 
 NIGHT ; 
 
 CROWNED WITH THE SPARKLE OF A STAR 
 AND THRONED ON ORB OF ASHEN LIGHT : 
 
 THE WOLF-TAIL SWEEPS THE PALING EAST 
 TO LEAVE A DEEPER GLOOM BEHIND, 
 
 AND DAWN UPREARS HER SHINING HEAD, 
 SIGHING WITH SEMBLANCE OF A WIND. 
 
 IT OPENS AS KHAYYAM OPENS, WITH 
 THE FALSE DAWN, THE WOLF-TAIL ; 
 
 XXI 
 
HERE ARK SOME VERSES THAT HAVE 
 SOMETHING OF THE RESOLUTE INDE- 
 PEND1 N( 1 "1 KHAYYAM IN 1 HEM. 
 
 !l.\l THY MANHOOD BIDS THEE DO, 
 
 UTIAUSE, 
 
 : I [VI S AND NOBLEST DIES WHO 
 
 MAKES AND K. Kl P-MADE LAWS. 
 
 \I I OTHER LIFE IS LIVING DEATH, A WORLD 
 WH1 r 1 HAN TOMS I'V. : 
 
 A BREA1 II, A WIND, A S'TM', A VO 
 TINKLING OF nil CAMEL-B1 I I . 
 
 HOW THEN SHAL] MAN O ORDER LIFE THAT 
 
 v. HEN HI-- I AI B "1 VI ARS I- rOLD, 
 
 ; in w i NDS m- way, now 
 SHAI I HIS EVEN I i NOOR HOLD? 
 
 : E 1 hi- WR1 1 ill'. 
 ii mi 1 1 i hi. l am r AND I hi: PI n. 
 Mai i. hi nil PATS i HAi ri \\> DS DOWN, 
 Hi i; hoard nil WOR] D, m i; PI1 I i S 
 
 M I v * . 
 
 XXII 
 
" HAJI ABDU, SAYS HIS EDITOR, 
 WHO SIGNS HIMSELF F. B., " HAS BEEN 
 KNOWN TO ME FOR MORE YEARS THAN 
 I CARE TO RECORD." PERHAPS IT WILL 
 NOT REQUIRE ANY VERY PROFOUND 
 CAPACITY FOR PENETRATION TO DIS- 
 COVER THAT HAJI ABDU AND F. B. 
 ARE IDENTICAL, AND THAT THE F. B. 
 ARE BUT THE HONEST MASK THAT 
 CONCEALS SIR RICHARD BURTON. 
 THERE IS NO SUCH PERSON AS HAJI 
 ABDU. IT IS CURIOUS TO RECOLLECT 
 THAT THERE WAS A TIME WHEN THE 
 EARLIER ADMIRERS OF FITZGERALD'S 
 POEM WERE WELL-NIGH DOUBTFUL OF 
 THE VERY EXISTENCE OF OMAR 
 KHAYYAM, DOUBTFUL CERTAINLY AS 
 TO WHETHER HE WROTE ANYTHING AT 
 ALL RESEMBLING THE RHYMES WHICH 
 THE ANONYMOUS TRANSLATOR ATTRI- 
 BUTED TO HIM. 
 
 ADMIRATION FOR OMAR KHAYYAM WAS 
 
 XXIII 
 
EVIDENTLY IN I HI". AIR SOME TWENTY 
 
 FOR IN MDGCC1 XVII, 
 
 M. NICHOLAS, FORMERLY DRAGOMAN 
 
 OF I Mi. I REN< II l MBASSY IN PI 
 
 WI> 1 HEN I KIM II O INSUL AT RES( HI, 
 
 II I OUT AN I ITION 
 
 OF I1II. RUBAIYAT OK OMAR IN THEIR 
 
 PERSIAN II XI ACCOMPANIED BY A 
 
 RENDERING IN FRENCH PROSE. THERE 
 
 1 I III SUGH I 1 ST Kl VSON CO 
 
 ME I ll VI M. NICHOLAS HAD EVER 
 
 HEARD OF 1 HI. ENG1 ISH \'l 
 
 FOR THE M \I I ll; OF MINI' OF l D- 
 
 WARD I 1 1 /'.I RALD. IK AS 1! I A\ 1 1 N 
 
 ONI 0RI1 M \l IS! \NI> ANOl HI R, ANY 
 
 I INK. EVEN 01 Nil SI I'. II 1 I -l CAST AL 
 
 HAD EXISTED, 1 1 
 
 MAY BE IMAGIN1 D I ll \ I M. NICHl 'I V- 
 
 LD HAV1 Ml l 1 .1 D K) HI- 1 NO! ISH 
 
 i IN HI- PREFACE. THERE 
 
 il \l 1 USION. I HI 11. 1 \ OF 
 
 KHAYY \M SEEMS 1*0 HA\ i: 
 
 XXIV 
 
COME TO HIM QUITE INDEPENDENTLY. 
 " I OFTEN THOUGHT," HE SAYS, 
 " DURING MY STAY IN PERSIA THAT A 
 FRENCH TRANSLATION OF THE QUAT- 
 RAINS OF KHAYYAM MIGHT HAVE SOME 
 INTEREST FOR LITERARY EUROPE." M. 
 NICHOLAS PUT HIS CASE MODESTLY, 
 BUT WHEN HE RETURNED TO PARIS 
 AND FAVOURED CERTAIN OF HIS 
 FRIENDS WITH CITATIONS FROM OMAR, 
 THEY WERE FIRED WITH ENTHUSIASM, 
 AND URGED HIM TO PRINT. THE RE- 
 SULT WAS THE HANDSOME VOLUME 
 WHICH IS PERHAPS EVEN A GREATER 
 GLORY OF THE " IMPRIMERIE IMPE- 
 RIALE" THAN THE MAGNIFICENT AND 
 MONUMENTAL EDITION OF THE SHAH 
 NAMEH, CARRIED THROUGH BY M. 
 JULIUS MOHL. IT IS INTERESTING TO 
 FIND THAT OMAR FOUND A SIMILAR 
 FATE IN FRANCE TO THAT WHICH HE 
 EXPERIENCED IN ENGLAND. HE WAS 
 
 XXV 
 
 
REC0GNIZ1 D AM' v. i.i- 
 D BY MEN OF GENIUS. Illl.O- 
 PHILE GAU1 11 l'. l HI MOS1 VR1 IS! IC 
 MINK OF FRAS ':> MIT. KHA\- 
 
 \ AM OF NK HOI VS, AND IMME- 
 DIATELY WROTE UPON II \N 
 \KIH1 1 w 111' H APP1 VRED IN" THE 
 " MONITEUR UNIVERSEL" FOB VIII 
 Mil \n ! R, mix Ct l w II, AND H VS 
 5IN( I Bl I N Kl PRIN 111' IN" 1 HE 
 rWO I'l I I'll l 1 t'l. \"l I Ml S OF HIS 
 '• 1 'ORIJ N I." 
 
 II I SURPRISING 
 
 I II \l 1111 "11111 1 GAU 111 R Kl < OGNIZI 1' 
 1111 '.I Ml - \M' I III Bl \l l"\ OF <>M \K 
 Ml \\\ AM. AND 1 HAI 111 Ml I' 
 
 TO I 11 vi \hvi lTIOM SOM1 01 nil 
 
 I'M. I- 01 HIS I 
 
 TO Sli II A POET, TO SU< II AN \ 
 M WAS ONU NEC! SSAR\ 1 H \1 OMAR 
 KHAYYAM SHOULD BE MAD1 KNOWN 
 IN 0RD1 R 1 MAI HI 5H0U1 D Bl l 0V1 D. 
 
 \\\ I 
 
BUT IT IS A LITTLE CURIOUS THAI- 
 MUCH ABOUT THE SAME TIME, AND 
 QUITE INDEPENDENTLY, ENGLISH 
 
 SCHOLARSHIP AND FRENCH SCHOLAR- 
 SHIP SHOULD BE AT WORK UPON 
 OMAR KHAYYAM, AND THAT A GREAT 
 ENGLISH POET AND A GREAT FRENCH 
 POET SHOULD BE ALIKE FIRED WITH 
 ENTHUSIASM FOR THE PERSIAN POET 
 WHO HAD BEEN BROUGHT TO THEM 
 FROM THE OBLIVION OF LONG CEN- 
 TURIES. THEOPHILE GAUTIER IS AS 
 ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT THE OMAR 
 KNOWN TO HIM THROUGH NICHOLAS 
 AS SWINBURNE IS ABOUT THE OMAR 
 KNOWN TO HIM THROUGH FITZGERALD. 
 THE VERY WAY IN WHICH HE BEGINS 
 HIS ESSAY SHOWS HOW DEEPLY HE 
 WAS IMPRESSED. " ' HAVE YOU READ 
 BARUCH ? ' LA FONTAINE ASKED EVERY- 
 BODY HE MET AFTER A STUDY OF 
 THAT PROPHET WHICH HAD PRO- 
 
 XXVII 
 
DLY IMPRESSED HIS MIND. 
 • HAVE Yl ' I HE QU \l K UNS oJ 
 
 KHAYYAM,' WE SHOULD FEE] INCLINED 
 ■ V, SO MUCH ll\s l Hi: BOOK IM- 
 PR] SSED US SlXCr. WE TURNED ITS 
 PAGES." AND I HEN GAD I IER GOES I IN 
 
 .Kit II THE LIFE OF OMAR, AND 
 TO APPRECIATE HIS VERSES WITH 
 lll\l FINE DECISIVE SYMPATHY WHICH 
 IS MOST VDMIRABLE WHEN SHOWN BY 
 
 pi i] i ro ] 
 
 I in OPHU I G \i"III:k'> WORDS HELP 
 TO CONJURE DP A CHARACTERISTIC, 
 DEI IGH I I DL PICTUR! OF OM \K KHAY- 
 
 V \\| S] \iii. ON S( 'Ml WIDE will IE 
 
 I I kk \( I \ r I HE O " •! "I l Hi: D\\ 
 Willi l i:li \l'> \ni> DANCING-GIR1 S 
 
 i HIM, WITH CUPS \nd I \ 
 HAND, WITH SDMI BOOK 01 VERSES 
 
 II \KD BY, IHi: I \IK FIN] P] RSI \N 
 SCRIP1 Bl VCK l PON l in IVORY- 1 l\ I i D 
 VELLUM \l i i 5 WITH BLUES 
 
 \\\ III 
 
AND REDS AND POWDERED WITH GOLD. 
 HERE THE SKIMMER OF THE STARS 
 SET FREE HIS SOUL, LAUGHED AT THE 
 MOLLAHS, SANG HIS DIVINE SONGS 
 AND " LOOSED HIS FINGERS IN THE 
 TRESSES OF THE CYPRESS-SLENDER 
 MINISTER OF WINE." OR WE MAY 
 IMAGINE HIM WALKING IN SOME GAR- 
 DEN RED WITH ROSES AND NOISY 
 WITH NIGHTINGALES, AND MEDITATING 
 UPON THE DOOM OF YOUTH AND 
 BEAUTY AND THE GRINDING WHEEL 
 OF HEAVEN WHICH REDUCES JAMSHID 
 AND KAI KHOSROU TO POTTER'S CLAY 
 AND BIDS TULIPS SPRING FROM THE 
 CHEEKS OF PERISHED LOVELINESS. 
 OR YET AGAIN RECLINING IN SOME 
 GREEN PLACE WHERE THE LILIES BLOW 
 LIKE THE LAZY HORATIAN CHILD OF 
 GENIUS, " BY THE SMOOTH HEAD OF 
 SOME SACRED STREAM," WITH WINE 
 AND RHYMES AND A DELICIOUS FRIEND. 
 
 XXIX 
 
ILWAYS M '■ LY, AS MELAN- 
 
 CHOLY AS KOHELETH YESTERDAY, 
 
 I Nil \L'KK OR JULIUS BAH1 
 \, PILLED [NDEEO WITH WHAT 
 ::l \\N CALLS "I.\ GRANDE CURIOSITE," 
 BUI WHOLLY UNABLE TO GRATIFY U 
 or STIFLE IT. 
 
 FOR M 1 * OWN PART I CAN NEVER 
 \<tiri rHE OMAR WHOM SOME WOULD 
 HAVE I S B] LIEVE IN — TUT. OMAR 
 WHOS1 VERSES ARE All. A JUGGLE OF 
 MYS1 ICISM, WH OF WINE IS 
 
 ir l \ (in AT1NG CAN r, WHOSE 
 
 PHR \-i - I 11 PASSION \Kl BUI I HE 
 \NI> MOS1 UNSEEMLY 
 II UK \Nt l S OF THE CJNHING1 D DE- 
 VOTEE. II IS < 1 K I AIM Y TRUE 1HAI 
 3 Wlln PRAIS1 WIN! \K1". NOT 
 \I u\\ S wim -BIBBERS. ATH1 N 
 [NSIN1 All- 1 MAI AN V .. I HA I 
 
 HERO 11 ' OF ALL l'o I I 
 
 MS, w iS IN Rl \l l n \ STRN 1 
 
 XXX 
 
TEETOTALER, MEMBER, NO DOUBT, OF 
 MANY HELLENIC BANDS OF HOPE. TUR- 
 GUENIEV TOO, IN ONE OF HIS NOVELS, 
 SPEAKS OF A RUSSIAN POET WHO WAS 
 FAMOUS FOR HIS BACCHANALIAN VERSES, 
 BUT WHO NEVER HIMSELF TASTED WINE 
 ON ANY CONSIDERATION. BUT IT IS 
 IMPOSSIBLE TO THINK OF OMAR 
 KHAYYAM AS SUCH AN ONE. HE WAS 
 NO SHEER SENSUAL WORSHIPPER OF 
 WINE, WOMEN AND SONG, LIKE SOME 
 OF THE CHILDREN OF GOLIAS, BUT 
 WE MAY TAKE IT FOR GRANTED THAT 
 HE SHARED THE OPINIONS OF MARTIN 
 LUTHER ON THE THREE, AND THAT 
 HIS WRITINGS HAVE NOTHING IN COM- 
 MON WITH THE GOLDEN BOOK OF 
 MOLINOS, OR THE QUIETISM OF MADAME 
 GUYON. 
 
 YET ANOTHER GREAT WRITER IN 
 ANOTHER PART OF THE WORLD WAS 
 TOUCHED BY THE GENIUS OF KHAYYAM 
 
 XXXI 
 
— EMERSON, IN THE ARTICLE ON 
 PERSIAN POETRY WHICH APPEARED 
 IN "LETTERS AN] ! AIMS," 
 
 IN III!. WANING YEARS OF HIS 
 LIFE PAYS HIS TRIBU1 I TOO OF 
 HOMAGE TO OMAR KHAYYAM. YET IT 
 NOT APPEAR I HA I EMERSON 
 KNEW ANYTHING OF FITZGERALD OR 
 m NICHOLAS, OF THE ENTHUSIASM OF 
 GAUTIER OR OF THE ENTHUSIASM OF 
 SWINBURNE. Mil COLLECTION OF 
 
 TRANSLATIONS OF VON HAMMER 
 PURGS1 U I wi Rl i OR HIM THE KEY 
 1 HAI UNLOi Kl D THE HEAVEN < '1 
 PERS1 \N POE1 K\. l'.r l 1 1 WAS l NOUGH 
 FOR l Ml RSI IN, AS INDEED IT WAS 
 1H FOR ANY HIGH SPIRIT, TO 
 IN CONTA( I WITH OMAR KHAN NAM 
 TO RJ A MAST! R. HI HAILS 
 
 "OM \K (111 \M " AS 111 , 1 "l 1 OWING 
 VI 'N HAMMER PURGSTA1 I . SPE1 I S nil 
 NAME, IS ONI "i l HOSE PI RSI w 
 
 XXXII 
 
POETS WHO " PROMISE TO RISE IN 
 WESTERN ESTIMATION," AND HE REN- 
 DERS A QUATRAIN HIMSELF THUS : — 
 
 on earth's wide thoroughfare below, 
 
 two only men contented go ; 
 
 who knows what's right and what's 
 
 FORBID, 
 AND HE FROM WHOM IS KNOWLEDGE HID. 
 
 LONG YEARS BEFORE THAT, EMERSON, 
 IN HIS " ENGLISH TRAITS," HAD PRE- 
 DICTED AND PREDICTED RIGHTLY THE 
 GROWTH OF " AN IRRESISTIBLE TASTE 
 FOR ORIENTALISM IN BRITAIN." IT IS 
 ONLY NATURAL THAT THE RULING 
 ISLAND OF AN EMPIRE SO LARGELY 
 EASTERN SHOULD COME IN THE FULNESS 
 OF TIME TO HAVE THAT "TASTE FOR 
 ORIENTALISM " WHICH EMERSON PRE- 
 DICTED, AND TO COUNT IN ITS SER- 
 VICE SUCH SCHOLARS AND POETS AS 
 EDWARD FITZGERALD AND SIR EDWIN 
 ARNOLD. 
 
 XXXIII c 
 
IN GERMANY, AS MIGHT BE EXPECT I D, 
 OMAR FOUND MANY ADMIRERS, AND 
 MANY TRANSLATORS, THE LATEST OF 
 THEM THE EMINENT POET FRIEDRICH 
 BODENSTEDT WHO HAS ALSO TRANSLATED 
 MUCH OF HAFIZ, AND WHO SO AUDA- 
 -I Y AND INGENIOUS] Y INVENTED 
 \.\l) FOISTED UPON I'HK WORLD THE 
 PERS1 \\ P( M I Mil:.' \ 5( II \I 1 Y. ONI 
 I IF Mil. CLEV] R] -I I'll « 1 S OF 1. 11 ERARV 
 hi ( I'.IM ION l \ IK PR \( I IS! D. BODEN- 
 STEDT IS A POET AND \ GOOD POET, 
 WD HIS RENDERING IS OF INTERES1 
 ro I HI. STUDENT, BU I HIS COMPLE1 1. 
 INDU FER] HCE TO I HE I ORM OF HIS 
 ORIGIN \1 IS \ LITTLE I l<\ ING. HI. 
 HARDLY EVER \1>IU RES H) I HE OR] 
 G1NAL MANNER OF I Hi. RUBAH \i, AND 
 DASH! S OFF W HI NEVER HI FEELS IN 
 CLINED, WHICH IS FREQ1 ENTLY, INTO 
 \s OTHER L\ RICAL FORM WHK H SU1 ["S 
 .M'VtiK HIS CON\ ENIENCE. 01 HER 
 
 XXXIV 
 
GERMAN SCHOLARS BEFORE BODENSTEDT 
 HAD STUDIED KHAYYAM. VON HAMMER 
 PURGSTALL, AS WE HAVE SEEN, HAD 
 TRANSLATED SOME OF HIM, AND CALLED 
 HIM NOT TOO UNHAPPILY THE PERSIAN 
 VOLTAIRE. RUCKERT TRANSLATED A 
 COUPLE OF QUATRAINS, AND CALLED 
 OMAR A "MAGICAL POET." OTHER GER- 
 MAN AUTHORS, TOO, HAVE TRIED THEIR 
 HANDS AT RENDERINGS OF OMAR'S 
 SONG. 
 
 FINALLY, THERE IS A RENDERING OF 
 OMAR KHAYYAM INTO HUNGARIAN, 
 IN A TINY DAINTY LITTLE VOLUME, 
 PUBLISHED AT BUDA-PEST WITHOUT A 
 DATE, UNDER THE TITLE OF " KELETI 
 GYONGYOK," WHICH BEING INTER- 
 PRETED MEANS "ORIENT PEARLS." IT 
 IS DEDICATED TO THE GREAT LINGUIST 
 AND TRAVELLER ARMINIUS VAMB&RY. 
 IT IS TRANSLATED FROM THE EDITION 
 OF NICHOLAS, CONTAINING EXACTLY 
 
 XXXV 
 
RAINS IN I.XAC I IV IHI 
 SAME ORDER AS IN NICHOLAS. TO SA1 
 THAT MY KNOWLEDGE OF THE HUN- 
 GARIAN LANGUAGE IS LIMITED WOULD 
 BE TO PAY THAT KNOWLEDGE TOO 
 (.1:1 VI A COMPLIM1 NT. STILL, SUCH 
 VS II IS, IT I N A I : I I D MI TO 1 UZZLE 
 OF THE MAGYAR RENDERING 
 ami TO AS( l l; l UN I H \I IT £ 
 FAIRLY CLOSELY IK VNS1 Mil'. IT IS 
 IN \ I RSI , !'■' | || DOES NOT l "I LOW 
 I III. 1 ORM OF THE ORIGIN \I . AS I HE 
 QUATRAINS ARE THROUGHOUT GIVEN 
 IN Kin Ml.n COUP! I rS, INSTEAD • 
 1 HI I HREE Kll\ MINC AND I 
 RHYMING I IN! OF 1111. ORIGINAL 
 
 RUBAIYAT. II h an 1 N« NGL\ 
 
 |.\1N I \ LITTLE VOLUME, DELIGHTFULLY 
 VDAPTED FOR 1'Hl POCKET, AND I 
 WISH with ALL MY 111 AR l I HA I MR. 
 QUAR1 K H WOU1 D GIV1 l 111 WOR1 D 
 A NEW EDITION OF II l/t.l .KAI D'S 
 
 XXXV] 
 
RENDERING IN A FORM SO COMPANION- 
 ABLE AND DELIGHTFUL. IT IS HIGHLY 
 CREDITABLE TO THE SCHOLARSHIP AND 
 THE TASTE OF HUNGARY THAT SUCH 
 A BOOK SHOULD BE PRODUCED AND 
 SHOULD BE POPULAR IN HUNGARY. 
 BUT IT IS ONLY ONE FURTHER PROOF 
 OF THE EXTRAORDINARY VITALITY OF 
 THE MAGYAR TONGUE, TOO MUCH NEG- 
 LECTED BY LINGUISTIC STUDENTS IN 
 OTHER COUNTRIES. IT WOULD BE 
 WORTH WHILE LEARNING HUNGARIAN, 
 NOT INDEED IN ORDER TO READ OMAR 
 KHAYYAM, BUT TO READ THE NOVELS 
 OF JOKAI. 
 
 PROBABLY THE FIRST MENTION OF 
 OMAR KHAYVAM'S NAME IN ENGLAND, 
 THOUGH NOT IN ENGLISH, OCCURS IN 
 " VETERUM PERSARUM REL1GIO " OF 
 THOMAS HYDE PUBLISHED IN MDCC, IN 
 WHICH KHAYYAM IS HAILED AS KING OF 
 THE WISE AND WONDER OF HIS AGE. BUT, 
 
 XXXVII 
 
SPEAKING ROUGHLY, EKE NAME OF 
 OMAR WAS PRACTICALLY UNKNOWN TO 
 ENGLISH ORIENTAL SCHOLARSHIP UNTIL 
 FITZGERALD CAME. THE NAME OF 
 OMAR WAS DIMLY FAMILIAR AS THAI 
 OF AN EMINENT ASTRONOMER WHO 
 WROTE A STANDARD WORK ON ALGEBRA, 
 A SORT OF ORIENTAL "COCKER," — 
 HAH K.HALFA SEEMS TO REGARD HIM 
 SOLELY AS A MATHEMATICIAN — BUT II 
 SEEMED NEVER TO OCCUR TO ANYBODY 
 THAT THE ASTRONOMER AND ALGE- 
 BRAIST WAS ALSO A POET OF THE HH 
 ORDER, AND 1 HAT TO CALL HIM THE 
 ov HAFIZ, OF BAADI, OR ANY 
 hi HER OF Till Ll O N .Ni/l i> GLORIES 
 OF PERSIAN SONG WAS l" PAY A VERY 
 DE< IDED i 0MP1 [Ml N 1 1" I HOSE SAME 
 GLORIES. I DO NOT I MINK HI \L SIR 
 u li I [AM JON1 S, I" v. HOM ENGLISH 
 ORIEN I \l ISM OW1 - SO MUCH, AND 
 U HO HAP IN HIM SOM1 11UN<; el 
 
 KXXVH1 
 
LITERARY SKILL IN VERSE MAKING, 
 EVER MENTIONS OMAR KHAYYAM'S 
 NAME AS A POET. YOU MAY SEARCH 
 IN VAIN THROUGH GORE OUSELEY's 
 ATTRACTIVE VOLUME ON THE PERSIAN 
 POETS FOR A HINT AS TO HIS EXIS- 
 TENCE. YOU MAY SEARCH IN VAIN 
 THE BEST BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARIES 
 OF ALL BUT THE MOST RECENT YEARS 
 FOR ANY ENTRY OF HIS EXISTENCE. 
 IT MAY BE SAID IN FACT THAT UP TO 
 A VERY RECENT PERIOD, PERSIAN 
 POETRY MEANT TO ENGLISH SCHOLARS, 
 FIRDOUSI, HAFIZ, SAADI, NISAMI, JAMI, 
 AND A FEW OTHERS, AND THAT NOW- 
 ADAYS, IT MEANS, FIRST AND FOREMOST, 
 OMAR KHAYYAM, AND THAT THE OTHERS 
 ARE ONLY AT BEST HIS PEERS. 
 
 THERE IS AN EDITION OF FITZ- 
 GERALD'S TRANSLATION OF THE RU- 
 BAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM, WHICH IS 
 KNOWN ONLY TO THE FEW. AS EDIE 
 
 XXXIX 
 
OCHILTRI.: I TUI MOUND IN 
 
 '•Tin; ANTIQUARY," " I MIND THE 
 
 biggin' o't." at harry quilter's 
 HOUSE ONI night, the house that 
 
 GODWIN BUILT AND THAT WHISTLER 
 INHABITED, AND OVER WHICH SUCH A 
 WAR OF EPIGRAM HAS BEEN WAG] D, 
 AT MR. QUILTER'S HOUSE ONE NIGHT 
 WHERE II AI I -aim ./i.n WERE G \ I HERED 
 
 ["HER IN I m NAM! 
 ! I I I OWSHIP, SOM1 ONE SUGG! ST] D 
 THAT 1 l WOULD BE A PI I 
 rHING TO HAVE A PRIVATELY-PRINTED 
 EDITION OF OMAR KHAYYAM. MR. 
 QUI! l 1 R, nil N IS NOW GOV! RNED 
 BY AN INDOMITABLE ENERGY, IMME- 
 DIATELY AND WARMLY TOOK nil. 
 NO! ION UP, VND (. VRRIED I I 
 WITH AI I Ml ED. I HI RI SU1 I W VS \N 
 ENORMOUS QUARTO VOLUME, NATU- 
 RA1 IV EXCE1 DING] V SLEND1 R, AND 
 ^ CURIOUS COARSI 
 
FULL OF BLOTS AXD BLEMISHES, AND 
 WHICH LOOKED EXCEEDINGLY LIKE TEA 
 PAPER. WHY THIS PARTICULAR PAPER 
 HAD BEEN CHOSEN REMAINED A MYS- 
 TERY. BUT IT WAS PRESUMED THAT IT 
 LENT SOME ODD BIBLIOPHILIC CHARM 
 TO THE BOOK. IT CERTAINLY WAS NOT 
 AN ATTRACTIVE BOOK; IT WAS MUCH 
 TOO BIG, AND PRINT AND PAPER RE- 
 CALLED THE COMMENTS OF BROWNING'S 
 DEGENERATE DETESTABLE PRIEST, BUT 
 IT HAD TWO ADVANTAGES; IT GAVE 
 FITZGERALD'S TEXT WITHOUT ANY 
 NOTES, AND IT WAS A LITERARY 
 CURIOSITY. IT IS INDEED A VERY 
 RARE BOOK, AXD IF A COPY OF IT 
 EVER GETS INTO THE MARKET, IT 
 GOES AT A HIGH FIGURE. I MYSELF 
 ONCE, AND ONCE ONLY, SAW A COPY 
 EXPOSED FOR SALE IN A BOOKSELLER'S 
 WINDOW. I WENT IN OUT OF 
 CURIOSITY AND FOR OLD ACQUAIXTAXCE 
 
 XL! 
 
SAKE AND ASKED THE PRICE, AND 
 HUNT) THAT IT WAS A PRETTY STIFF 
 FIGURE. I AM DIVULGING NO SECRET 
 IN TELLING OK THIS MYSTERIOUS 
 EDITION, KOR MR. QUARITCH KNOWS 
 All ABOUT II BY rHIS TIME. A COPY 
 CAME INTO HIS HANDS AI II R FITZ- 
 i.l l; \I D'S DEATH AND l IGUR1 D THUS 
 in \ SI n CATALOGUE OF 
 
 OR11 N I \i. BOOKS. 
 
 "OMAR KHAYYAM, THE RUBA1YAT, 
 I 'RANM.ATI D INTO I NGLISH \ I 
 ROY. 4TO. II II I. 1'KIN l ED ON I'll! 
 CI IV] RS, BDS. IOS. I JOHN 
 
 CAMPBELL, JUN. MDCCC1 XXXIII. \ 
 PIRATED EDI I ION ; l 111. FIRST I EAF 
 i OWING INS( KIP l ION :- 
 'TO THE TRANSLATOR, WITH THE 
 PRINTER'S THANKS AND APOLOGIES. 
 HI NKY QUI] I l K.' I I IS WORD I OR 
 WORD AN l X \< l REPRIN 1 OF MR. Fl l/- 
 Gl K Al D'S I RANS] Al ION." 
 
 \l II 
 
"WORD FOR WORD," I SHOULD 
 THINK IT WAS J THAT WAS THE POINT 
 OF THE WHOLE THING ; THE INTENTION 
 WAS WELL MEANING ; THE EXECUTION 
 FELL BELOW THE INTENTION. IT 
 WOULD BE INTERESTING TO KNOW 
 WHAT EDWARD FITZGERALD THOUGHT 
 OF IT ; HE OUGHT AT LEAST TO HAVE 
 BEEN FLATTERED BY THE GENUINE 
 ADMIRATION OF WHICH IT WAS THE 
 PROOF. I HAD A COPY, AND FOUND 
 ITS AMPLE MARGINS PASSABLY 
 
 USEFUL FOR WRITING NOTES OF 
 PARALLEL PASSAGES AND THE LIKE, 
 ALTHOUGH THE PAPER WAS ABOUT AS 
 AGREEABLE TO WRITE UPON AS 
 BLOTTING PAPER, OR THE MYSTERIOUS 
 FABRIC UPON WHICH THE CHEAP 
 EDITIONS OF FRENCH NOVELS ARE 
 MOSTLY PRINTED. A VERY DELIGHT- 
 FUL LITTLE AMERICAN EDITION, 
 PRINTED, I THINK, BY HOUGHTON, 
 
 XLIII 
 
Mini IN" AND CO, I- AN EXACT RE- 
 l IF I HE THIRD ENGLISH EDI I U >N, 
 
 ( HARMINGLY I'KIN III" ON I INE 
 SIDE OF EACH PAGE ONLY, LEAVING 
 I Hi: OTHER Bl ANK, AND SE1 MINI I' I 
 IN\ I I I. SOME Al'\ ENTUROUS < \l I- 
 GRAPHIST TO INSCRIBE I HI. PERSIAN 
 MM nil REON. I HI ' 1"". 
 
 IHl. EDITIONS WITH MR. VEDDER'S 
 
 ■ i; \ I IONS. 
 THE ONLY 01 HI K 1 NG1 ISH TRANS- 
 LATION "l I IMAR KNOWN rO ME IS 
 MR. WHIN! II I D'S. I HIS APP1 AR1 D IN 
 
 [RST I ORM IN MDCCCLXXXH AS 
 
 i \|.| |; VOLUME OF l RUBN1 R*S 
 "ORIl N I \l SI RI1 S," N l UNIV. 
 
 S0M1 N1NI H ONI PAGES 01 \ I RSE 
 1 RANSI ATIONS IN I Hi - WH. FORM 
 VS MR. I I l/'.l R M D'S. 1 HIS \ I RSION 
 Rl NDER] D rWO HUNDR1 D VND 
 
 Ml iv I IIKI I QU \1 R UN> IN A MANN] R 
 MORE LITERA1 I HAN MR. 1 1 rZGl R U D*S. 
 
 XLIV 
 
THAT THEY SHOULD EVEN APPEAR TO 
 COMPETE WITH HIM BY BEING IN 
 VERSE FORM WAS PERHAPS UNFORTU- 
 NATE, ALTHOUGH HAD THEY APPEARED 
 BEFORE MR. FITZGERALD'S MASTER- 
 PIECE, THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN 
 RIGHTLY REGARDED AS RESPECTABLE 
 SPECIMENS OF VERSE RENDERINGS 
 FROM AN OBSCURE AUTHOR. IN THE 
 NEXT YEAR MDCCCLXXXIII, APPEARED 
 A NEW EDITION, IN WHICH THE NUMBER 
 OF QUATRAINS WAS INCREASED TO FIVE 
 HUNDRED, AND THE PERSIAN TEXT 
 PLACED OPPOSITE THE ENGLISH VERSE 
 RENDERING. THIS IS UNDOUBTEDLY 
 ONE OF THE MOST VALUABLE CONTRI- 
 BUTIONS TO KHAYYAM LITERATURE 
 EVER MADE, AND WOULD HAVE BEEN 
 EVEN MORE VALUABLE THAN IT IS IF 
 MR. WHINFIELD HAD GIVEN A PROSE 
 INSTEAD OF A POETICAL RENDERING 
 OF THE PERSIAN TEXT. THE PERSIAN 
 
 XLV 
 
I I \ I I- BEAUTIFULLY PRINTED; THE 
 
 IDU( HON AND notes are good; 
 
 II I< ALTOGETHER A SCHOLARLY, 
 
 tCEABLE PIECE OF WORK THAT 
 MIGHT Bl BETTERED BUT REMAINS VERY 
 1 \< II LENT. PERHAPS SOME TIME MR. 
 WHINFIELD MAY BE INDUCED TO PUB- 
 LISH HIS rEXT WITH A LITERAL PROSE 
 rRANSLATION, AND WIN [HE GRATI- 
 II M. OF ALL KHAYYAMISTS, AND, FOR 
 I II \T MATTER, OF ALL STUDENl 
 N 
 AMERICA H \S QUI ! I NTLV 
 
 ADD! D ONI 1" i ML NUMBER OF 
 I ING l R INS] Al [l INS ■ I] KHAYYAM. 
 MR. JOHN LESLIE GARNER OK MIL- 
 WAUKEE, IN WISCONSIN— A [OWN, B* 
 MIL WAY, OF WHICH I HI POPI LATIOM 
 l^ FIVE-SIXTHS FOREIGN, AND CHIEFLY 
 GERMAN— PUBLISHED SOME TIME LAS! 
 \ I \K. •' l III M ROPHES OF OMAR 
 KHAYYAM." WE NEED Nor PA! SI TO 
 
 MAI 
 
ASK WHY "STROPHES." MR. GARNER 
 FOLLOWING MR. WHINFIELD'S LEAD, 
 HAS VENTURED TO RUN HIS VERSION 
 INTO VERSE : HERE IS A SPECIMEN 
 QUATRAIN : 
 
 KHAYYAM, YOUR BODY IS A TENT, YOUR 
 
 SOUL 
 A SULTAN DESTINED TO AN UNKNOWN GOAL. 
 THE DREAD FERRASH OF DOOM DESTROYS 
 
 THE TENT 
 THE MOMENT WHEN THE SULTAN'S SUMMONS 
 
 TOLL. 
 
 this is very fair of its kind, 
 yet it has only to be compared 
 with Fitzgerald's to show the 
 rashness of attempting to render 
 omar in verse after the master, 
 here is Fitzgerald's : — 
 
 'TIS BUT A TENT WHERE TAKES HIS ONE 
 
 DAY'S REST 
 A SULTAN TO THE REALMS OF DEATH 
 
 ADDRESST, 
 THE SULTAN RISES, AND THE DARK FERRASH 
 
 XLVII 
 
SI KIK1 -. AND 1 ■ iTHER 
 
 GUEST. 
 
 NO! HING MORE NEED Bl S \1I>. 
 
 MR. ANDR1 W LANG IN THI ISE 
 "LETTERS TO M V.D Al I HORS," WHICH 
 VT ONC1 l HI I'M l'.ll 1 AND THE 
 Dl SPAIR OF AMB1 I •' 1 li HAS 
 
 ADDRESSED SOME' \ ERSES TO OMAR 
 KHAYYAM WHICH ll.wi CAUGHT WITH 
 [SITE FELICITY I III. MUSIC OF 
 ; RA1 D'S l "KM. 
 WISB OMAR, DO [HI SOI III l.K.N Bl 
 FLU 
 
 A I ENDING 01 llll 
 
 l in 5NOWDRIF1 Ol llll li 1 Al - OF Mi: 
 
 1 III WILD Willi WON I 
 
 I lll> IS llll VERY i ION OF 
 
 I III \K 1 01 « l:l l IN" Kl BAIY Al IN 
 llll II rZGl R \l D MANN] . \NH II 
 \N\"Nl I MINK I II \ I \N \K I I \-'» 
 
 III 
 
of acquirement or of accomplish- 
 ment, he has only got to take 
 unto himself pen and paper, and 
 to try assiduously and see what 
 he makes of it. mr. lang adopts 
 — with one exception, in the case 
 of his last two quatrains but 
 four — the swinburnian amplifica- 
 tion, which rhymes the third 
 line of one rubaiyat with the 
 next, and so binds the poem to- 
 gether with a completeness which 
 would scarcely be possible in 
 any rendering of the disconnected 
 pearls of omar's chaplet. i can- 
 not HELP QUESTIONING, HOWEVER, 
 THE CONCLUSION TO WHICH MR. LANG 
 ARRIVES IN HIS LAST VERSE. 
 
 SERENE HE DWELT IN FRAGRANT NA1SHAPUR, 
 BUT WE MUST WANDER WHILE THE STARS 
 ENDURE, 
 
 XLIX D 
 
HE KNEW THE SECRET: WE HAVE NONE 
 i HAT KNOWS, 
 \N SO SURE AS OMAR ONCE WAS SIRE. 
 
 I CANNOT FIND IT IN MY HEART 
 TO THINK THAT OMAR WAS STJR1 
 ANYTHING EXCEPT PERHAPS THE 
 MOTIONS OF THE STARS, AND Til! IN- 
 EXORABLE LAWS OF ALGEBRA. INDEED, 
 I THINK THE ' OF THE RED 
 
 WINE AND THE ROSE " WAS A GOOD 
 MAI TROUBLED IN HIS MIND ABOUT 
 MANY Mi: 
 
 THE ONLY INFORMATION WHICH 
 IUI1 RBE1 OT GI\ 1 - UPON KHAY- 
 YAM CON] AINS l in. I OV] IV I : 
 WHICH l> I INK! !• wi i h His NAME, 
 BUT GIV1 i OF RECOGNITION 
 
 OF HI- I ' '• NOM] K, A 
 
 MATHEMATICIAN, OR A POET. HERE 
 
 i- i iii entry: 
 
 " Kill \M. N \Ml OF A MUSSU1 MAN 
 PHILOSOPHER \\ W^ 1 DID IN THE 
 
ODOUR OF SANCTITY IN HIS RELIGION, 
 TOWARDS THE END OF THE FIRST AND 
 THE BEGINNING OF THE SECOND CEN- 
 TURY OF THE HEGIRA. 
 
 "IN THE YEAR CV OR CVI OF THE 
 HEGIRA THIS PHILOSOPHER, BEING IN THE 
 COMPANY OF CERTAIN OF HIS FRIENDS, 
 SAID, ' MAN, MY SEPULCHRE OUGHT TO 
 BE IN SOME SPOT WHERE THE SPRING 
 MAY COVER IT WITH BLOSSOMS EVERY 
 YEAR.' ONE OF THOSE WHO WAS 
 PRESENT, AND WHO IS THE AUTHOR OF 
 THE BOOK CALLED ' MAG'MA ALNAUADIR,' 
 WHO CHRONICLES THIS EVENT, SAID 
 THEREUPON UNTO HIMSELF, ' IS IT 
 POSSIBLE THAT A MAN SO WISE SHOULD 
 UTTER WORDS SO CONTRARY TO THOSE 
 OF GOD WHO LAYS IT DOWN IN THE 
 KORAN, "NO MAN KNOWS IN WHAT 
 SPOT HE SHALL DIE?"' 
 
 " MANY YEARS AFTER, THIS SAME IN- 
 DIVIDUAL BEING ON A JOURNEY TO 
 
 LI 
 
NISCHABOUR IN KHORASSAN, TO VISIT 
 [HIS '.VHO HAD DIED IN 
 
 THE ODOUR OF SANCTITY, FOUND THAT 
 SEPULCHRE WAS AT THE FOOT OF 
 THE WALL OF A GARDEN WHERE THE 
 TREES. LOADED WITH FLOWERS AND 
 NETTED ONE WITHIN THE OTHER, SO 
 LETELY COVERED IT, THAT IT 
 WAS : LE TO SEE IT; AND THIS 
 
 BROUGHT BACK TO HIS MEMORY WHAT 
 HE HAD BEAD MHRLY." 
 
 rais is ah that d'herbelot had 
 
 \V, OR AI I l \M SA1 -. 
 OUR OMAR. l \'D is LOVELY, 
 
 BUT ll l- ' UGH 
 
 <>Ck OMAR WAS I IRN NEAR NAI- 
 SHAPUR IN KH . V IN THE 
 
 I I l \ I NTH CENTl RY Of THE CHRISTIAN 
 i All OTDAR. 11 I- SATO THAT HE 
 rOOK HIS SURNAME OK KHAYYAM, THB 
 TENT-MAKER, which was INDEED HIS 
 I Aim R'S IRADE, FROM A SPIR1 : 
 
 LII 
 
MODESTY STRANGELY UNLIKE THAI 
 WHICH ALLOWED FERDUSI TO CALJ 
 HIMSELF THE " HEAVENLY," AND SAAD1 
 THE " HAPPY." IN THE FAMOl'S 
 COLLEGE OF NAISHAPUR, OMAR CAM] 
 TO FINISH HIS EDUCATION ; IN THE 
 COLLEGE OF NAISHAPUR, HE MADE TWO 
 FRIENDSHIPS WITH TWO VERY FAMOUS 
 MEN. BETWEEN OMAR KHAYYAM, 
 
 ABDUL KHASSEM, AND HASSAN-SEBBAH, 
 THERE WAS THE CLOSEST FRIENDSHIP ; 
 THE MUSKETEERS OF DUMAS'S PROSE EPIC 
 WERE NOT MORE FONDLY ATTACHED. 
 THEY SWORE TOGETHER ONCE IN PAST 
 PROOF OF THEIR FRIENDSHIP, AT THE 
 SUGGESTION, IT IS SAID, OF OMAR, 
 THAT WHICHEVER OF THEM WAS FIRST 
 AND BEST BLESSED BY FORTUNE, SHOULD 
 COME TO THE AID OF HIS LESS FOR- 
 TUNATE COMRADES, AND CROWN THEM 
 WITH BENEFITS. IT WAS DEEPLY 
 
 SWORN, AND THE WINNER KEPT HIS 
 
 I III 
 
WORD. WHEN TUT. YOUTHFUL COLLEGE 
 I >\VS WERE PAST, AND FATE, AS RICHTER 
 SAYS OF HIS HERO BROTHERS, HAH 
 I \kl N THEIR BLEEDING HEAR I -. 
 \NH FLUNG THEM DIFFERENT WAYS, 
 M'.KUI. KHASSEM ROSE TO GREAT DIS- 
 I IN< riON AT THE COURT OK ALP 
 VRSLAN, THE SECOND KING OF THE 
 SI I DJOUKID1 S \>\ N VSTY, BECAME Al 
 ! \-l WHAT WE SHOULD CAFE PRIME 
 MINISTER, ANI> RECEIVED FROM HIS 
 M Mil kl l> I ORD IMF I I IFF. OF NIZAM 
 I I MOULK, WHICH F! IN. . IN I ERPRE1 ED 
 5IGNI1 IES RU] Ik oi THE I MPIRE. U> 
 NIZAM EL MOU1 R ON I H: 
 FORI UNE CAME Till rWO I Kll NFS OF 
 I 11! IK 1 1 Al IK \l I A( I, \\l> CA1 LED 
 . 111^ Kl I 1 HI. CO! - 
 
 I EGIAT1 "Al IF 
 
 I I' 1^ Fl EASAN1 l" BE Al'.I 1 rO 
 ' I I. MOULK - 
 I \\ 1. Fl 1 \ F! I AMU AT 1 1 1 F. 
 
 1 l\ 
 
POSSIBILITY OF FULFILLING HIS WORD. 
 HE ASKED EACH IN TURN WHAT WAS 
 HIS HEARTS DESIRE. OMAR WAS A 
 POET, A PHILOSOPHER, A MYSTIC, AND 
 A STUDENT OF THE STARS. " GIVE ME," 
 HE SAID, "THE REVENUES OF THE 
 VILLAGE WHERE I WAS BORN. I AM 
 A DERVISH ; I AM AMBITIONLESS ; 
 BENEATH MY FATHER'S ROOF I CAN 
 PLEASE MYSELF WITH POETRY AND 
 THE STUDY OF THE SUPREME." HAS- 
 SAN SEBBAH, MORE WORLDLY, ASKED 
 FOR A PLACE AT COURT. THE WISH 
 OF EACH WAS ANSWERED TO THE FULL. 
 OMAR WENT TO HIS VILLAGE, STUDIED 
 THE STARS, WROTE VERSES AND ALGE- 
 BRA AMAZING COMBINATION AND 
 
 TOOK A GREAT DEAL OF PLEASURE, IT 
 IS SAID, IN SITTING ON HIS TERRACE 
 IN THE MOONLIGHT AND DRINKING 
 MUCH WINE IN THE COMPANY OF 
 FRIENDS, LUTE-PLAYERS AND DANCING- 
 
 LV 
 
GIRLS, TO THE CONSIDERABLE DIS- 
 PLEASURE OF THE PHILISTINES OF HIS 
 DAY. HASSAN SEBBAH'S CAREER WAS 
 WILD] R AND DARKER. ONCE IX O 
 HE BEGAN TO PLOT WITH ALL HIS MIGHT 
 AGAINST HIS FRIEND AND PATRON 
 NIZAM IT. MOULKJ DISCOMFITED AND 
 DISGRACED, HE IT. I D TO THE MOUN- 
 rAINS, SHARKED (T A I 1ST OF LAWLESS 
 RESOLUTES, AND BECAME FAMOUS OR 
 INFAMOUS TO ALT TIME AS THE OLD 
 MAN OF IHK MOUNTAINS, THE FOUNDER 
 OF THE ASSASSINS. TV THE HAN 
 ONE OF THESE ASSASSINS HASSAN 
 SEBBAH AVENGED HIMSELF ON HIS 
 OLD FRIEND AND LATE l Nl MY. NIZAM 
 EL MOULK WAS FOUND DEAD IN His 
 BED ONE MORNING, STABBED BY [HE 
 DAGG1 THE M \I> SI AVES 
 
 OF ilir OLD MAN OF THE MOUNTAINS 
 I I I- ( I I THINK OF OUR 
 
 SW1 I I AND CYNICAL KHAYYAM AS ill! 
 
 I vi 
 
COMRADE AND FRIEND OF THE GRIM- 
 MEST AND MOST MURDEROUS FANATIC 
 IN THE RANGE OF HISTORY. 
 
 HAFIZ WAS IN MANY WAYS DIS- 
 TINCTLY A FOLLOWER OF OMAR KHAY- 
 YAM. THERE ARE PASSAGES IN THE 
 GHAZELS OF HAFIZ WHICH RESEMBLE 
 CERTAIN RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 
 TOO CLOSELY FOR MERE CHANCE SIMI- 
 LARITY. THUS THIS VERSE : — " ONE 
 MORNING AN UNSEEN VOICE IN 
 FRIENDLY TONE CALLS TO ME FROM 
 THE WINE-HOUSE ' COME BACK THOU 
 WHO HAST SO LONG SERVED AT THE 
 THRESHOLD,'" IS EXCEEDINGLY KHAY : 
 YAMESQUE. AGAIN, "THE CHANT OF 
 
 THE BIRD IS HEARD ONCE MORS, BUT 
 WHERE IS THE WINE-FLASK ? THE 
 NIGHTINGALE IS LAMENTING, WHO 
 WILL WITHDRAW THE VEIL FROM THE 
 
 ROSE?" AND AGAIN: "i WILL CAST 
 
 INTO THE FIRE MY RAGS, STAINED 
 
 LVII 
 
LIKE THE ROSE WITH WINE." AM) THIS, 
 ESPECIALLY: — "A TWAIN OK CLEVER 
 FRIENDS, A FLAGON OF OLD WINE, 
 r, A\I> A BOOK AND A CORNER 
 OF THE LAWN; I WOULD NOl EX- 
 CHANGE THIS CONDITION EITHER FOR 
 THIS WORLD OR THAT WHICH IS TO 
 COME." AND ONCE AGAIN: 
 MORROW OUR DRAUGHT MAY BE FROM 
 THE RIVER OF PARADIS1 \M> AM IP- 1 
 I HI. HOURIS : \:y I TO-DAY I NJOY THE 
 RADIANT I llll CUP-BEARER 
 
 \M> \ GOB] 1 l OF WIN] ." AND Yl I 
 AGAIN : -" HA1 1/. I 1 W T I HOU I HE 
 • How \NP 1 Hi: WHEREFORE,' \ND 
 DRINK I OR THE MOM1 N r I HV WINE. 
 Ill- WISDOM HATH WITHHOLDEN FROM 
 US WHAT IS NO I "la 1 OF I'HK 
 WORDS, ' How AND Will REFO 
 
 MORI. ; — " IN Mils WOR] D OF 
 i I W THERE IS N<> Rl \I MAN ! WE 
 MUSI MAKE \ ni W WORLD AND 
 
 LVII1 
 
CREATE A NEW ADAM. ALL THESE 
 PARALLELS WERE NOTED BY ME LONG 
 SINCE FROM THE DELIGHTFUL LITTLE 
 VOLUME OF TRANSLATIONS FROM 
 HAFIZ BY THE LATE S. ROBINSON, LONG, 
 ALAS, OUT OF PRINT AND HARD TO 
 FIND, AND MIGHT NO DOUBT EASILY BE 
 MULTIPLIED. 
 
 FAREWELL, DEAR OLD KHAYYAM. 
 YOU HAVE BEEN MY COMPANION IN 
 MANY LANDS, BY TIBER, AND NILUS, 
 AND DRY ILISSUS. I HAVE LIVED 
 
 WITH YOU AND LOVED YOU AND 
 LEARNED YOUR LESSONS, AND NOW 
 THIS HUMBLE DISCIPLE FROM THE 
 FROZEN NORTH LAYS HIS POOR TRI- 
 BUTE ON THE MASTER'S TOMB. KEATS 
 ONCE ENTREATED SOME TRAVELLER 
 WHO WAS GOING TO THE EAST, TO 
 TAKE A COPY OF " ENDYMION " WITH 
 HIM, AND WHEN HE CAME TO THE 
 GREAT SAHARA, TO CAST THE VOLUME 
 
 I.IX 
 
: HIM WITH ALL HIS FORCE FAR 
 AWAY INTO THE YELLOW WAVES OF 
 SANK. IT WAS A DELICIOUS FANTASTIC 
 WISH, THAT THE LOVELIEST POEM OF 
 OUR LATER ENGLISH SPEECH SHOULD 
 LIE AND DKII I IN I HE REMOTE SA- 
 HARA, AND BE COVERED AT LAS! in 
 I HE SAND I II VI II \S ENGU1 II I 
 MANY PRECIOUS THINGS, BUT NONE 
 PR] ( [OUS, CAR W ANS, AND GOLD, 
 \ND I . \ND FAIR SLAVES, AND 
 
 IHE tTIIEIS OF MIGHTY (.TANS. IF I 
 MIGHT FRAME A WISH IN DISTAN1 
 EMULATION, I WOULD CHOOSE THAI 
 SOME WANDERER TO Mil BAST, SOME 
 BURTON, SOME KING LAKE, SOME 
 WARBURTON, MIGHT CARRY THIS LITTLE 
 BOOK IN HIS SADDLE-BAGS, AND RIDE 
 [■HROUGH KHORASSAN MM. HE CAME 
 TO NAISHAPUR, AND CAST IT DOWN IN 
 Mir DUST BE! ORE MO rOMB OF OMAR 
 KHAYYAM. 
 
 I X 
 
OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 OMAR, DEAR SULTAN OF THE PERSIAN 
 
 SONG, 
 FAMILIAR FRIEND WHOM I HAVE LOVED 
 
 SO LONG, 
 WHOSE VOLUME MADE MY PLEASANT 
 
 HIDING-PLACE 
 FROM THIS FANTASTIC WORLD OF 
 
 RIGHT AND WRONG. 
 
 MY YOUTH LIES BURIED IN THY 
 VERSES : LO, 
 
 I READ, AND AS THE HAUNTED NUM- 
 BERS FLOW, 
 
 MY MEMORY TURNS IN ANGUISH TO 
 THE FACE 
 
 THAT LEANED O'ER OMAR'S PAGES 
 LONG AGO. 
 
 ALAS FOR ME, ALAS FOR ALL WHO 
 WEEP 
 
 LXI 
 
AND WONDER AT THE SILENCE DARK 
 
 AND DEEP 
 l'HAT GIRDLES ROUND THIS LITTLE 
 
 LAMP IN 
 NO WISER THAN WHEN OMAR FELL 
 
 ASLEEP. 
 
 REST IN THY GRAVE BENEATH THE 
 
 CRIMSON RAIN 
 OF HEART-DESIRED ROSES. LIFE IS 
 
 VAIN, 
 AND VAIN THE TREMBLING LEGENDS 
 
 WE MAY TRAC1 
 UPON Mil. OPEN BOOK I HAT SHUTS 
 
 AG UN. 
 
 1 Ml 
 
RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
THE RUBAIYAT OF 
 OMAR KHAYYAM. 
 
 SINCE IT IS THE FATE OF MAN UPON 
 THIS HATEFUL EARTH TO FEED ON 
 SORROW AND TO VEX HIS SOUL, HE 
 MUST BE ACCOUNTED HAPPY WHO DE- 
 PARTS SWIFTLY FROM THE WORLD, BUT 
 HE MOST HAPPY WHO NEVER COMES 
 INTO THE WORLD. 
 
 ;/ 
 
 THE SECRET OF ETERNITY IS FAR 
 FROM THEE AND ME ; THE WORD OF 
 THE ENIGMA IS UNKNOWN TO THEE 
 AND ME ; BEHIND THE VEIL IS SPEECH 
 OF THEE AND ME ) BUT IF THE VEIL BE 
 RENT, WHAT HAPS TO THEE AND ME? 
 B 
 
II 
 
 WITHOUT CLEAR WINK I CANNOT 
 LIVE] WITHOUT THF. WINE-CUP I CAN- 
 NOT LIFT THE LOAD OF UFEJ I AM 
 THE SLAVE OF THAT FAIR HOUR WHEN 
 ["HE CUP-BEARER BIDS ME DRAIN Nil 
 ANOTHER CUP AND 1 CANNOT. 
 
 THE ROSE SAID. "I AM THF. YUSUF 
 FLOWER, FOR MY MOUTH IS FULL OF 
 GO] D AND .11 AVI I >." [ SAID, "IF THOU 
 ART THE YUSUF FLOWER, SHOW ME A 
 I IK 1 UN SI< N I Ml Kl "1 ." AND SHE 
 MADE ANSWER, "PERCHANCE THAT I 
 \M GARBED IN A BLOOD-DRENCHED 
 CARMEN I. " 
 
 LONG TIME l SOUGHT IN THIS 
 SHIFTING world FOR A MOM! N I *.» 
 
 ii \i i iv. -ri u r. i SP1 n r in MY i N- 
 DEAVOI RS \l I MY Wl I. AND I 
 I r \i:n 1 II \l 1111 MOON I- IT I A 
 PA1 I ID will l I BESIDE ["HY li \r l V, 
 Ml \1 I 111 C\ PR] 5§, BY l HI -l l ND1 R 
 l ORM, -1 ! l SQUE Dl 1 ORMITY. 
 
Ill 
 
 YEA, DRINK WINE, FOR BY HIM 
 WHO IS FAR-SEEING AS I AM, IT WILL 
 BE FOUND THAT IN THE EYES OF THE 
 DEITY THE ACT IS OF SMALL ACCOUNT. 
 GOD FROM ALL TIME HAS FORESEEN 
 THAT I SHOULD DRINK WINE. IF I 
 DRANK NOT, THIS FORE-KNOWLEDGE 
 WOULD BECOME IGNORANCE. OR I 
 SHOULD NOT FULFIL HIS FORE-KNOW- 
 LEDGE. 
 
 RISE AND COME HITHER, AND FOR 
 MINE HEART'S EASE SOLVE AT LEAST 
 ONE PROBLEM : BRING SWIFTLY HERE 
 A FLASK OF ANCIENT WINE, THAT WE 
 MAY DRINK OUR FILL BEFORE FOLK 
 MAKE FLAGONS OF OUR CLAY. 
 
 WHEN I AM DEAD, WASH ME WITH 
 VINTAGE JUICE ; INSTEAD OF PRAYERS 
 RECITE OVER MY TOMB HYMNALS OF 
 WINE AND FLAGONS, AND IF YOU SEEK 
 ME AT THE LATTER DAY, LOOK FOR ME 
 IN THE DUST UPON THE TAVERN THRES- 
 HOLD. 
 
SIN< V. NO MAN DARES PI \Y PROPHET 
 FOR I "MokkoW, HASTEN TO I. II I THY 
 HEAVY LAD! N HEART. DRAIN, DE- 
 LIGHTFUL Moon, A CRIMSON CUP, FOR 
 III WEN'S MOON Will. TORN A Wl AKY 
 WHIM \\1> FAIL TO FIND US. 
 
 Ill I III I U< KN I o\ i R BE DRUNK 
 I ROM \ I IR'S END lo m VR'S 1 ND, 
 .. ill D IN WIN] AND GARB] D IN 
 SHAME : FOR will N W I ART u LSI AND 
 WIDE-AWAKE SORROW ASSAULTS US 
 FROM \1 I QU \R l l RS, BU I No SOONER 
 \KI. Wl DRUNK 1 II \\ w 1 1 U oil A I 
 FORTUNl . 
 
 i\ HEAVENS NAME, WHY DOES Mil: 
 mil OSOPH] R SI r HIS H] \R i' I PON 
 
 I 111 i ROPHI] - OF THIS HOI SE OF 
 M \\\ SORROWS ? ll l HIM W HO CALLS 
 mi DRUNKARD CLEAR HIS EYES \M> 
 
 II i I. Ml. [F III SI 1 S ON HIGH EVEN 
 i in. SIGN 01 \ l w ERN. 
 
EVERY MORN I SAY, THIS SHALL 
 BE THE NIGHT OF REPENTANCE, REPENT- 
 ANCE FROM THE FLAGON, AND FROM 
 THE BOWL BRIMMING OVER, REPENT- 
 ANCE. YET NOW THAT THE SEASON 
 OF ROSES HAS COME SET ME FREE IN 
 THE TIME OF THE ROSE FROM RE- 
 PENTANCE, O LORD OF REPENTANCE ! 
 
 SPEAK SOOTH, THOU .LITTLE WHEEL, 
 ^VHAT HAVE I DONE TO THEE, THAT 
 ?HUS, BEATEN AND PERSECUTED, I 
 SHOULD BE DRIVEN BY THEE TO BEG 
 MY BREAD FROM TOWN TO TOWN AND 
 FIND MY DRAUGHT IN THE FLOWING 
 STREAM ? 
 
 I PASSED BY WHERE A POTTEK 
 KNEADED EARTH AND I BEHELD WHAT 
 HE DID NOT BEHOLD, THAT IT WAS 
 MY FATHER'S DUST WHICH LAY IN THE 
 PALM OF THAT POTTER. 
 
MAN IS LIKE UNTO A FLAGON AND 
 'HIS SOUL IS Till; WINE THEREIN: HIS 
 MOULD IS L1KI UNTO A REED, AND 
 HIS SOUL IS THE SOUND THEREIN. WHAT 
 1^ 1 \RTHLY MAN, O KHAYYAM, BUT A 
 PAPER LANTERN OF FANCY AND A 
 VLAMP THEREIN. 
 
 SINCE LIFE SELDOM ANSWERS TO 
 OUR HEART'S DESIRI , ol WHAT AVAIL 
 \RL All. OUR HOl'i -> AND ALL OUR 
 STRIVINGS? OUR SPIRITS ARE ALWAYS 
 VEXED, ALWAYS ARE WE SAYING IN 
 SIGHING, "TOO I Al I WE ( A ML, TOO 
 SOON WE MUST DEPART." 
 
 SINCE THE HEAVENLY Willi! AND 
 1 Ml 11 \\ 1 NEVER BEEN YOUR 1 Kll NDS, 
 WHY SHOULD YOU R] CK WH1 I 111 R I HE 
 III WINS BE SEVEN OR EIGHT? THERE 
 \KI . I SAY AG UN, ["WO DAYS FOR 
 Willi H 1 TAKE NO 1 HOUGHT, I HE 
 DA\ WHICH HAS NO! COME, \M> I HE 
 DAY WHK ll H Y-. GONE FOR L\ l R. 
 
VII 
 
 O KHAYYAM, WHY SO MUCH MOURN- 
 ING FOR YOUR SIN? WHAT CONSOLA- 
 TION CAN YOU FIND IN THUS PLAGU- 
 ING YOURSELF? HE WHO HAS NEVER 
 SINNED CAN NEVER TASTE THE SWEET 
 OF FORGIVENESS. MERCY WAS MADE 
 FOR THE SAKE OF SIN, THEREFORE, 
 WHY ARE YOU AFRAID? 
 
 NO ONE HAS EVER PASSED BEHIND 
 THE VEIL THAT MASKS THE SECRETS 
 OF GOD. NO ONE SHALL EVER PASS 
 BEHIND IT; THERE IS NO OTHER 
 DWELLING-PLACE FOR US THAN THE 
 BOSOM OF THE EARTH. WOE'S ME 
 THAT THIS SECRET, TOO, SHOULD BE 
 SO SHORT. 
 
 I MYSELF WILL POUR WINE INTO A 
 CUP WHICH CONTAINETH A FULL 
 MEASURE. TWO CUPS THEREOF WILL 
 CONTENT ME, BUT I WILL IMMEDIATELY 
 THREE TIMES DIVORCE FROM ME 
 RELIGION AND REASON, AND WED THE 
 DAUGHTER OF THE VINE. 
 
VIII 
 
 I Mi. MY I I. OF GRACES 
 
 AND WITCHERI1 .-. -I'M THYSELF J AND 
 Ilirs, QUENCHING THE I LAMES 
 rHOUSAND DESIRES RISE N :■ • I UP AG UN. 
 THOU FORBIDDEST ME TO GAZE 
 Mil E, BUT THOl* MIGHT AS Will. COM- 
 MAND ME TO TURN DOWN THE CUP, 
 WITHOUT SPILUNG THE CONTENTS 
 BHEREOF. 
 
 / 
 
 / -I IK THE COMPANV OF Ml N 01 
 Kiel! i - AND UNDERSTANDING, 
 
 AND I l.Y A I HOUSAND I EAGUES 
 PROM A MAN WITHOUT WIT. IK A 
 WIS] MAN GIVETH THE] W, FEAR 
 
 \<> I TO DRINK ["HEREOF, BUT IF A 
 FOOL OFFERETH I'llll AN \NI1D0TE, 
 POUR II OUT UPON nil EARTH. 
 
 MY ui I I l.l, 0V1 D, M \V HER DAYS 
 BE LONG AS MY SORROWS, IS KIND 
 K) Ml KG UN. SHE « IS! UPON ME A 
 SW] I I and FLEETING Gl U4< E, AND 
 
 SIR UGH IU \Y \ \N1-III D, SW 1N> . 
 
 DOUBT, "Mi ME DO GOOD AND ( \-i 
 II ON Illl. WATER." 
 
THE KORAN, WHICH MEN CALL THE 
 HOLY WORD, IS NONE THE LESS READ 
 ONLY FROM TIME TO TIME, AND NOT 
 WITH STEADFAST STUDY, WHILE ON 
 THE LIP OF THE £JI£^ THERE RUNS A 
 LUMINOUS VERSE WHICH WE LOVE 
 TO READ ALWAYS AND EVER. 
 
 YOU WHO DRINK NO WINE, BLAME 
 NOT THE BIBBERS, FOR I WOULD 
 LIEFER RENOUNCE HEAVEN THAN RE^ 
 NOUNCE THE JUICE OF THE GRAPE. 
 YOU PLUME YOURSELF UPON YOUR 
 TEMPERANCE, BUT THIS FALSE GLORY 
 SITS VILELY ON ONE WHO COMMITS 
 DEEDS A THOUSAND TIMES MORE VILE 
 THAN HONEST DRUNKENNESS. 
 
 ALTHOUGH MY BODY MAY BE COMELY, 
 ALTHOUGH ITS ODOUR MAY BE SUAVE, 
 ALTHOUGH MY COLOUR MAY MOCK THE 
 TULIP, AND MY FIGURE SHAME THE 
 CYPRESS, IT IS NOT CLEAR TO ME, 
 NEVERTHELESS, WHY MY HEAVENLY 
 PAINTER HAS DEIGNED TO LIMN ME 
 ON THIS WORLD. 
 
X 
 
 I WISH TO DRINK SO DEEP, SO DEEP 
 OF WINK THAT ITS FRAGRAN< 1. MAY 
 HANG ABOUT THE SOIL WHERE 1 SHALL 
 SLEEP, AND THAT REVELLERS, STILL 
 DIZZY FROM LAST NIGHT'S WASSAIL, 
 SHALL, ON VISITING MY TOMB, FROM 
 ITS VERY PERFUME KALI. DEAD DRUNK. 
 
 IN THE KINGDOM OF HOPE WIN ALL 
 THE HI ARTS VI >'" ( \N. IN I HE KING- 
 DOM i 'I THE PRESENCE, BIND TO THY- 
 >1 I r A P] Kl Ill' SOU] , I OR, BE SUR1 . 
 A HUNDRED (CAABAS, I'll N 1 0] I \K1TI 
 AND WATER, ARE NOT WORTH A 
 SINGLE HI \KT. GIVE TH1 N I HY 
 KAABA THE GO-BY, AND SEEK A HEART 
 INSTEAD. 
 
 OH, WHEEL OF I AH', Dl -I RU< I 
 I'M I S FROM I HY l\i 0NQU1 RAB1 I. 
 HATE 1\ R VNNY HAS l:i I N I HY PUR" 
 POSE AND l HY PI I ISURE I ROM l HE 
 BEGINNING "I' rHINGS. \ND THOU 
 TOO, O EARTH, II' Wl H I DIGGI D 
 INI.. I ll\ BR] 1ST, W H \| 1 ki w kl S 
 SHOU] D WE MM FIND l HEREIN ! 
 
XI 
 
 WHEN OUR BLOOD BEATS QUICKEST 
 WITH JOY "OF THE GREEN EARTH, WHEN 
 THE STEEDS OF THE SUN SWEEP OVER 
 THE GREEN EARTH, I LOVE TO WANDER 
 WITH LOVELY GIRLS UPON THE 
 GREEN EARTH, MAKING MERRY TO- 
 GETHER BEFORE WE ARE ALL TURNED 
 TO GREEN EARTH. 
 
 EVERY DAY WHEN DAWN APPEARS, 
 I WILL HASTEN TO THE TAVERN 
 WITH THE CHEATING KALENDARS. 
 THEN, THOU THAT ART LORD OF THE 
 DEEPEST SECRETS OF MAN'S HEART,- 
 GIVE ME FAITH, IF THOU WOULDEST 
 THAT I PUT FAITH IN PRAYER. 
 
 NEVER, ALAS, DO WE DRINK WITH 
 DELIGHT ONE DROP OF CLEAR WATER 
 WITHOUT AT THE SAME TIME DRAIN- 
 ING THE BOWL OF BITTER WINE FROM 
 T«E HAND OF SORROW. NEVER DO 
 WE SHARPEN THE SAVOUR OF BREAD 
 WITH THE SAVOUR OF SALT WITHOUT 
 FEEDING UPON OUR OWN HEARTS. 
 
XII 
 
 TAKE A GRIP OF THE KORAN 
 WITH ONE HANI>; HAVE A CLUTCH AT 
 THE CUP WITH THE OTHER, AND 
 TREMBLE BETWEEN THE LAWFUL AND 
 THE UNLAWFUL. SO SHALL Wl SIT 
 BENEATH THE VAULTED SKY NEITHER 
 WHOLLY BELIEVERS NOR wholly IN- 
 FIDEL. 
 
 WE SHOULD KLIP AI I. OUR SECRETS 
 FROM Till: INDISCR] II, I ROM THE 
 VERY NIGHTINGALE WE SHOULD HIDE 
 THEM. '! HI N K 1 HEN, HE w I N, UPON 
 THE HARM YOU WREAK UPON POOR 
 HUMAN HEARTS IN' FORCING THEM 
 I HUS TO Illl'i; FROM l A( II OTHER'S 
 L\ 1 S. 
 
 CUP-BEARER, SINCE TIME LURKS 
 HARD BY RE tf>Y i<> SHA1 I BR YOU AND 
 ML. THIS WOR] D CAN NEVER Bl \N 
 U3IDING DW1 I I ING l OR YOU AND ME. 
 BUT COME WHAT MAY, ASSURE YOUR- 
 SI LF THAT GOD IS IN OUR H VNDS 
 WHILE THIS CUP OF WINE si ANDS 
 L.l I WEEN YOU AND Ml'.. 
 
XIII 
 
 WITH CUP IN HAND I LINGERED 
 LONG AMONG THE FLOWERS, AND YET 
 NOT ONE OF ALL MY WISHES HAS 
 BEEN REALIZED IN THIS WORLD. BUT 
 ALTHOUGH WINE HAS NOT LED ME TO 
 THE GOAL OF MY DESIRES, I WILL NOT 
 GO FROM THAT WAY, FOR WHEN MAN 
 
 iFOLLOWS A ROAD HE TURNS NOT 
 
 \BACK AGAIN. 
 
 PLACE THE WINE-CUP IN MY HAND, 
 FOR MY HEART IS ALL AFIRE AND 
 LIFE SLIPS FROM US SWIFT AS QUICK- 
 SILVER. ARISE, MY BELOVED, FOR THE 
 FAVOUR OF FORTUNE IS BUT A CHEAT- 
 ING DREAM, ARISE, FOR THE FLAME 
 OF YOUTH GUSHES LIKE THE WATER 
 OF THE TORRENT. 
 
 y\ 
 
 WE ARE THE SERVANTS OF LOVE; 
 THE DEVOUT ARE OTHERWISE. WE 
 ARE POOR ANTS, AND SOLOMON IS 
 OTHERWISE. ASK OF US A VISAGE 
 
 WAN WITH LOVE, AND TATTERED 
 GARMENTS FOR THE WAY OF THE 
 WORLD IS OTHERWISE. 
 
 
J 
 
 XIV 
 
 ASCRIBE NOT TO THE WHEEL OF 
 Hi.W IN I 111. W< |] AND WEAL WHICH 
 ARE THE PORTION OF MAN, THE 
 rHOUSAND JOYS AM) THOUSAND 
 SORROWS WHICH FATE AWARDS US, 
 FOR THIS Will II, MY FRIEND, RE- 
 VOLVES MORE HELPLESS THAN THY- 
 Sl l I \l ONG l HI. HIGHWAY OF THE 
 HI.W 1 M \ LO\ 1 . 
 
 I HAVE FLOWN I I KI A SPARROW- 
 H \w k FOR I ll l ROM l HIS WORLD OF 
 MYST] kll -, IN I 111 HOPE "I KI \CU- 
 [NG A incur K SPHERE. BU I. 1 \I I 1 N 
 \. ! UN 1" l IN l \K 1 II, AND 1 INDING 
 NON1 WORTHY OF SHARING I'HF. 
 llil'l'l N I HOUGH rS OF MY HE \KT, I 
 HAVE. GON1 FORI H AG V1N BY THE* 
 DOOR CHROl ».l! W HICH I CAME. 
 
 WE AR1 LOST IN LOV1 I" DAY, IN 
 Mil HOLV SHRIN1 wi PAY HOMAGE 
 ro WIN] rO-DAY, SUNDERED FROM OUR 
 \ I in Bl inc w I SHAL1 ["OUCH I HE 
 linn SHOl DO! I Hi ETERNAL TH] 
 TO DAY. 
 
XV 
 
 THE DAY WHEN I HOLD IN MY 
 HAND A CUP OF WINE, AND WHEN IN 
 THE JOY OF MY HEART I DRINK MY- 
 SELF DRUNK, THEN IN THAT HAPPY 
 STATE A HUNDRED MIRACLES BECOME 
 CLEAR TO ME, AND WORDS AS LIMPID 
 S WATER EXPLAIN THE MYSTERY OF 
 INGS. 
 
 SINCE EVERY DAY IS BUT TWO HALT- 
 ING PLACES, HASTEN TO DRINK THY 
 FILL OF WINE; FOR BE SURE OF THIS, 
 THOU WILL NEVER REGAIN THY LOST 
 HOURS, AND SINCE THOU KNOWEST 
 THAT THIS WORLD DRIVES SWIFTLY TO 
 ITS TOTAL RUIN, IMITATE IT THYSELF, 
 AND DAY AND NIGHT SEEK THE SWEET 
 ANNIHILATION ©F WINE. 
 
 X- 
 
 BEHOLD THE DAWN ARISE, O 
 FOUNTAIN OF DELIGHTS. DRINK YOUR 
 WINE AND TOUCH YOUR LUTE FOR 
 THE LIFE OF THOSE WHO SLEEP WILL 
 BE BUT BRIEF J 'AND OF THOSE WHO 
 HAVE GONE HENCE, NOT ONE WILL 
 e'er RETURN. 1 
 
 
XVI 
 
 VI \. IT I~ I , WH<>, iv THIS RUIN! D 
 IWVI.RN, SURROUNDED BY DRINKERS 
 AND DANCERS, HAVE .-l\kll>, FOR 
 THEIR SAKJ -. ALL MY Bl 
 SOUL AND HEART, AND WORLDLY Gl \K, 
 DOWN TO MY VERY DRINKING CUP. 
 THUS I SET MYSEL1 I Rl I I R<>M HOPE 
 01 HI AVI \ AND 1 ROM 1 EAR "1 Ml II.. 
 
 ITHUS I AM ABOT 1. I HI. 1 I EMI N I -. 
 
 \] \i; MI, AIR, 1 [RE, AND WATER. 
 
 ONI V V BRl Mil 1'IVIM S FAITH AND 
 IFAITH, <>M\ A BREATH DIVIDES 
 ;il 11 F I ROM DOUBT. I I I US 1 HEM 
 MARK Ml RRV WHU 1 WE SI II I. DRAW 
 BREATH, FOR ONLY A BREATH DIVIDES 
 .11 1 1 ROM Dl MIL 
 
 THE IK. Ill OF THE MOON II \< 
 S] \ i Rl l> I Hi ll \< R ROB! "l Mil 
 NIGHT. DRINK w [NE, Mil Rl I "Rl , FOR 
 
 I HOU Will NEVER 1 IND \ MOM! NT 
 SO PR] C10US. \ I 5, i'.l\ I 1 HYS1 1 I I 1' 
 TO JOY, 1 OR 1 HI- SAM] MOON Will 
 
 II i i mini i ONG AFTER I - Mil I u i 
 OF Mil: EARTH. 
 
^ C XVII 
 
 THE CLOUDS ARE SPREAD FORTH 
 AGAIN OVER THE FACES OF THE ROSES, 
 AND COVER THEM AS WITH A VEIL. 
 THE DESIRE OF DRINK IS STILL UN- 
 QUENCHED WITHIN MY HEART. SEEK 
 NOT YET THY COUCH, FOR THE TIME 
 HAS NOT COME. OH, BELOVED OK 
 MY SOUL, DRINK WINE, DRINK, FOR* 
 THE SUN HAS NOT YET VANISHED 
 BENEATH THE HORIZON. 
 
 THOU WHO KNOWEST MAN'S MOST 
 HIDDEN THOUGHTS, THOU WHO UP- 
 HOLDEST THE HALT WITH THY HANDS, 
 GIVE ME STRENGTH TO RENOUNCE, 
 AND HEED MY PLEADING, O THOU 
 \\liO ART THE STRENGTH OF ALL MEN", 
 
 IEED MY PLEADING. 
 
 1 SAW UPON THE WALLS OF THOUS 
 A BIRD PERCHED IN FRONT OF THE 
 SKULL OF KAI KHOSROU. THE BIRD 
 SAID UNTO THE SKULL, " ALAS, WHAT 
 HAS BECOME OF THE CLASH OF THE 
 GEAR OF THY GLORY AND THE BRUIT 
 OF THY TRUMPETS ? " 
 
 C 
 
XVIII 
 
 MY RUN OK LIFE SLIPS BY IN A FEW 
 DAYS. IT HAS PASSED ME BY LIKE 
 THE WIND OF THE DESERT. THERE- 
 FORE, SO LONG AS ONE BREATH OF 
 LIFE IS LEFT TO ME, THERE ARE TWO 
 DAYS WITH WHICH I SHALL NEVER 
 VEX MY SPIRIT, THE DAY THAT HAS 
 NOT YET O 'Ml , AND I HE DAY I HAT 
 
 HAS GONE BY. 
 / 
 
 THIS CAPTAIN RUBY COM] S 
 \\ UNKNOWN MINE. I HI- PERFECT 
 GEM IS STAMPED WITH AN UNKNOWN 
 SI \i . \l l OUR ( I »N( I USIONS ON THE 
 i [ON ARE VAIN, I OR 1 HE RIDDLE 
 OF PERFECT LOVJE IS WRITTEN IN" AN 
 UNKNOWN TONGUE. 
 
 5INI i I HE DAY BRINGS W] ill 1 1 \ 
 CONSCIOUSNESS 01 YOUTH, 1 Ml \N K) 
 WILE IT AWAY WITH WIN! EVEN TO 
 
 MY Hi AR i"> M I I'.n I. DO NOT Bl \s- 
 PHEME, ON A( COUN I 01 II- BITTER- 
 M 5S, l in- Gl ORIOUS JU1C1 , l i'U I I IS 
 \ in l [GH I TO DRINK, \M' i:i I I l.R 
 ONLY BE( \l 5E I I I- MY I H I . 
 
L- xix 
 
 O, MY SAD SOUL, SINCE IT IS YOUR 
 DESTINY TO BE PIERCED TO THE 
 QUICK BY SORROW, SINCE NATURE 
 BIDS THAT YOU SHALL BE TROUBLED 
 EVERY DAY WITH A NEW TORMENT, 
 THEREFORE, O MY SOUL, TELL ME 
 WHY YOU TOOK UP YOUR ABODE IN 
 MY BODY, SEEING THAT YOU MUST 
 ONE DAY QUIT IT. 
 
 ON THAT DAY OF DAYS WHICH MEN 
 CALL RESTFUL, SET ASIDE THE CUP 
 AND DRINK YOUR WINE FROM A 
 LARGER MEASURE. IF YOU PLEDGE 
 OTHER DAYS WITH BUT A SINGLE 
 DRAUGHT, THIS DAY DRINK TWICE, 
 FOR IT IS INDEED THE DAY OF DAYS. 
 
 HIM, ON WHOM YOU LEAN WITH SO 
 MUCH CONFIDENCE, HIM, IF YOUR EYES 
 WERE UNSEALED, YOU WOULD KNOW 
 FOR YOUR WORST ENEMY. IT IS WISE 
 IN THESE EVIL DAYS TO SEEK BUT 
 LITTLE AFTER FRIENDSHIP. THE 
 
 SPEECH OF OUR FELLOWS RINGS FAIR 
 ONLY FROM AFAR. 
 
XX 
 
 OH, MY HEART, SINCE THIS WORLD 
 GRIEV] S I III.]', SIN< l l HY PUR] SOUL 
 MUST SO SOON BE SEVERED FROM THY 
 BODY, SIT THEE DOWN IN I III. GRASSY 
 FIELDS AND MAKE MERRY AWHILE, 
 r.ii.-ii OTHER GRASSES SPRING FROM 
 THY VERY DUST, 
 
 \l I HOUGH THIS WINE IN 1 1 - ES- 
 -l N< l l- CAPAB] E OK TAKING A 
 [•HOUSAND SHAPES, ASSUMING NOW THE 
 FORM 01 \N \MM\I. MOW 1111 FORM 
 m A PI \M, DO NOT I HI Kl 1 ORE 
 i:l I II \ I rHAT IT »CAN EVER CEASE It) 
 II . \M> I HAT [TS ESSENC] I \N BE 
 DES1 R01 l D, FOR 1 HI R] IS l HE 
 REALITY WHIN THE SHADOWS DIS- 
 \ 111 AR. 
 
 I si I NO SM0K1 \l:l-l I ROM I HE 
 FIRE 01 MY SINS J I EXPECT \ I \IK1.K 
 FAT] I ROM NO M \N. II Mil IN 
 fUSTICl "1 MEN MAKES ME I 11 I MY 
 HAND rO Ml Hi \K I FIND NO SO] u I 
 in LAYING ii ON i HE HI M OF Mil IK 
 i \r.i RDIN] 5. 
 

 LET US BEGIN AGAIN THE ROUND 
 OF OUR PLEASURES ; LET US CONTINUE 
 TO DISDAIN THE ROUND OF PRAYERS. 
 WHEREVER THE WINE-FLAGON IS TO BE 
 FOUND, THERE ALSO THOU MAYEST SEE, 
 LIKE UNTO THE NECK OF THE FLAGON 
 ITSELF, OUR THROATS STRETCHED OUT 
 TO THE CUP. 
 
 HERE, BELOW, WE ARE NAUGHT BUT 
 PUPPETS FOR THE DIVERSION OF THE 
 WHEEL OF THE HEAVENS. THIS IS 
 INDEED A TRUTH, AND NO SIMILE. 
 WE TRULY ARE BUT PIECES ON 
 THIS CHESSBOARD OF HUMANITY, 
 WHICH IN THE END WE LEAVE, ONLY 
 TO ENTER, ONE BY ONE, INTO THE 
 GRAVE OF NOTHINGNESS. 
 
 IN MOSQUE, IN SCHOOL, IN CHURCH, 
 IN SYNAGOGUE, MEN FEAR FOR HELL 
 AND HOPE FOR PARADISE, BUT THE 
 SEED OF THIS UNCERTAINTY HAS 
 NEVER SPROUTED IN THE SOUL OF 
 HIM WHO HAS PENETRATED THE 
 SECRETS OF THE ALL-WISE. 
 
XXII 
 
 THOU ASKEST ME THE MEANING OF 
 THIS PHANTASMAGORIA OF THINGS 
 HERE BELOW. TO EXPOUND THE 
 WHOLE OF IT TO THEE WOULD BE A 
 WORK WITHOUT END. II IS A FAN- 
 TASTIC VISION, WHICH SPRINGS FROM 
 A BOUNDLESS OCEAN, AND SINKS AGAIN 
 INTO THE SAME OC] \.\ FROM WHICH 
 IT AROSE. 
 
 I I 1 [JS ABANDON THE VAIN SEARCH 
 
 \l I I R I III in ■ \ I I UN \ri l .. AND GIVE 
 OURSE1 vis UP WHO] IN' TO Mil JOYS 
 OF THE PR] SENT, 1" TOl I HING [HE 
 LONG TRJ SSI - l II MB] [Nl ! TO THE 
 Nil M>])iOl7S-60l'M> O] Mil. HARP. 
 
 N\ l YIELD OURS! I VI S TO THE COM- 
 MANDS "l N\ INI , JOYOUS] V « I OFFER 
 OCR SOU! S IN 5ACRIFIC1 TO I HE 
 SMILING STRJ nni 01 Mil HOL^ " 
 i:i HOI D OUR MINIS] ER 01 N\ IN] . IN 
 ONE II NNh I 111 FLAGON, IN I Mi: 
 OTHER l III BRIMMING CUP, BIDDING 
 Nil I 111 PI Kl ST W INI. OF HIS 
 S0U1 . 
 
XXIII 
 
 YOU HAVE WANDERED UPON THE 
 FACE OF THE EARTH, BUT ALL THAT 
 YOU HAVE KNOWN IS NOTHING, ALL 
 THAT YOU HAVE SEEN, ALL THAT YOU 
 HAVE HEARD, IS NOTHING. THOUGH 
 YOU TRAVEL FROM WORLD'S END TO 
 WORLD'S END, ALL THAT IS NOTHING, 
 ALTHOUGH YOU ABIDE IN A CORNER OF 
 YOUR HOUSE, ALL THAT IS NOTHING. 
 C 
 ONE NIGHT I BEHELD IN A DREAM 
 A SAGE, WHO SAID TO ME, " IN SLEEP, 
 O MY FRIEND, THE ROSE OF JOY HAS 
 NEVER BLOSSOMED FOR ANY MAN? 
 WHY DO YOU DO A DEED SO LIKE TO 
 DEATH? ARISE, AND DRINK WINE, FOR 
 YOU WILL SLEEP SOUND ENOUGH BE- 
 NEATH THE EARTH." 
 
 L 
 
 FLING DUST TO THE SKIES, AND DRINK 
 DEEP OF THE WINE-FLAGON; SEEK 
 EVER THE FAIREST WOMEN. TO WHAT 
 END DOST THOU SUE FOR PARDON, 
 TO WHAT END DOST THOU PRAY, SEE- 
 ING THAT OF ALL THOSE DEPARTED 
 HENCE, NOT ONE HAS RETURNED? 
 
IF THF. HUMAN HEART COULD ■ 
 
 riu 
 
 \ih, TUB 
 \\, WHEN 
 . 
 WHA1 SHALL \ 
 >W, WHIN \< >U H '■ 
 
 
 I H WERE 
 HI K. I HOUGH ALL I HE 
 
 . : 
 
 . 
 
 why TOU HAVE 
 
 I \K1 ' 
 
 I II 
 
 MY HI \ : 
 
 ■ 
 i HI LAM 
 
 I'.ll I ME 
 WITH PACE AND. 
 
 I HI. 
 \ M I li I HI'. 
 
 M'l WP. 
 
^ xxv 
 
 ALTHOUGH, TRULY, 1 HAVE NEVER 
 PIERCED THE PEARL OF OBEDIENCE 
 
 WHICH WE OWE TO THEE, ALTHOUGH 
 I HAVE NEVER SWEPT THE DUST OF 
 THY STEPS FROM MY HEART, I DO 
 NOT DESPAIR OF REACHING, TO THE 
 FOOT OF THE THRONE OF THY MERCY, 
 FOR I HAYE NEVER WORRIED THEE 
 WITH MY IMPORTUNATE PRAYERS. 
 
 THIS JAR HAS BEEN, LIKE ME, A 
 CREATURE, LOVING AND UNHAPPY ; IT 
 HAS Mi'.HED FOR THE LON< 1 TRESSES 
 OF SOME FAIR YOUNG GIRL ; THAT 
 HANDLE PA" WHICH YOU HOLD IT NOW, 
 WAS ONCE A LOVING ARM TO LINGER 
 FONDLY ROUND SOME FAIR OXF.'S NECK. 
 
 L 
 
 DO NOT HEEDLESSLY BEAT AT EVERY 
 PORTAL. WE MUST LEARN TO TAKE 
 THE GOOD WITH THE BAD IN THIS 
 LIFE, FOR WE CAN ONLY PLAY THE 
 GAME ACCORDING TO THE NUMBER OF 
 DOTS ON THE FACE OF THE DICE 
 WHICH DESTINY THROWS INTO THE 
 HOLLOW OF THIS HEAVENLY CUP. ^ V 
 
 V^ 
 
 
XXV! 
 
 BEFORE EVER TOO OR I WERE HORN, 
 THERE WERE DAWNS AND rWI] I 
 ASH II WAS NO! WITHOUT DESIGN 
 I II \l I HE REVO! t I IONS OF I HE SKIES 
 \Nc I [ONI D. BE CAREFUL, 
 THEN, HpW YOU TREAD UPON THIS 
 . FOR 11 V. \- ON< 1 , NO DOUBT, 
 
 I 111. A1TI 1 AIR GIRL'S EYE. 
 
 VOl VSSUPJE TOURSELF TO- 
 
 DAY Til VI VOU SHA1 L Bl HOLD TO- 
 MORROW'S DAWNj 1 VI N TO DWELL 
 TO MORROW IS MERE MADN 
 
 II VOUR 111 \Rl IS WIDE AWAKE, DO 
 V 'i WAS! I IN TORPOR l HIS I l ill E 
 TIN< II <>l III 1, 1 ok i HERE 1- HO 
 
 i HOW I ONG IT SHA1 I. ABIDE 
 wnii you. 
 
 QUI -I [ON ME N'"i' UPON I 111' V \- 
 GARI1 > <>l i hi- WOR1 D, NOR OF l HE 
 I HINGS I HAT Nil M \Y BE. LOOK 
 I lll> PR] -1 \ I HOUR AS I'l IN- 
 Dl R l ROM Dl 51 INN. \ l \ NO! I liv-/ 
 SI I r Ai"i l i in PAST, Nor ii \GUE 
 Ml \r."i i uif i UTURE. 
 
/ (. , . XXVII 
 
 THE TEMPLES OF THE GODS AND 
 KAABAS ARE PLACES OF PRAISE, THE 
 CHIMING OF BELLS IS NAUGHT BUT A 
 HYMN RAISED IN PRAISE OF THE ALL 
 POTENT. THE PULPIT, THE CHURCH, 
 THE BEADS, THE CROSS, ARE ALL BUT 
 DIFFERENT SYMBOLS OF THE SAME 
 HOMAGE TO THE SAME LORD. 
 
 LET NOT THE FEAR OF THINGS TO 
 BE MAKE SALLOW THY CHEEK, LET 
 NOT THINGS PRESENT MAKE THEE 
 BLANCH WITH FEAR. ENJOY, IN THIS 
 LAND OF SHADOWS, THY SHARE OF 
 DELIGHT, AND DO NOT WAIT THERE- 
 FOR UNTIL HEAVEN'S GIFTS ARE 
 SNATCHED AWAY FROM YOU. 
 
 t 
 
 NO FALSE MONEY CIRCULATES WITH 
 US. THE BROOM HAS CLEANLY SWEPT 
 OUR HAPPY HOME. AN OLD MAN 
 COMING FROM THE TAVERN SAID, 
 COUNSELLING ME, " DRINK, FRIEND, 
 DRINK WINE, FOR MANY LIVES WILL 
 FOLLOW YOURS DURING YOUR LONG 
 SLEEP." 
 

 XXVIII 
 
 L 
 
 THESE TRAVEL] ERS HAVE DEPARTED, 
 
 ■ ■I I HEM All, NOT ONE HAS RE- 
 TURNED TO TELL US OF II1K HIDDEN 
 I HINI iS < I »N< BALED BEHIND THE VEIL. 
 OH, DEVOU1 MAN, II IS BY A HUMBLE 
 HEART, AND NOT BY PRAYER, THAT 
 IH1. THINGS WHICH CONCKRN THY 
 SOUL Will. BE BROUGHT TO A FA VOUR- 
 r, FOR PRAYER I- OF NO 
 
 avail to a man Without sincerity 
 
 AND CON I kl riON, 
 
 IF YOU will. HEARKEN, I will. GIVE 
 
 I. Do NOT DON 
 
 Till. CLOAK OF HYPOCRISY FOR THE 
 
 I "\ I el GOD. Ill KNII Y 1- OF ALL 
 I IMI , AND lllis WORLD I- BUT "1 A 
 MOM] N I . DO NOT, nil N, i:\KI ER 1 OR 
 \ MOMENT Illi: I Ml'l.kY OF. .LlL-lOUl Y. 
 
 II"- JH \I I. I vi x YOU with 
 
 MINI [GNI IF. \Ni I ? MY NOTHIN 
 
 i --I 5 MY HI \i:i. i \ i X* Now I 
 wn I BIND MY l l 'IN- w 1 1 II nil GIRD1 E 
 OF I III PRI1 ->is. win Kl I ORE ? BE- 
 
 : I u l \l:\ 01 MY w \N 01 I 11 I • 
 
XXIX 
 
 THOU HAST PLANTED IN OUR HEARTS 
 AN IRRESISTIBLE DESIRE, AND AT THE 
 SAME TIME THOU HAST FORBIDDEN US 
 TO SATISFY IT. IN WHAT A STRAIT 
 DOST THOU FIND THYSELF, OH, UN- 
 HAPPY MAN, BETWEEN THIS LAW OF 
 THY NATURE, AND THIS COMMAND- 
 MENT? IT IS AS IF THOU WERT 
 ORDERED TO TURN DOWN THE CUP, 
 WITHOUT SPILLING THE CONTENTS 
 THEREOF. , 
 
 1 
 
 O KHAYYAM, WHEN YOU ARE DRUNK 
 BE MERRY ; WHEN YOU ARE WITH 
 YOUR MISTRESS, BE GLAD ; SINCE THE 
 END OF THIS WORLD IS NOTHINGNESS, 
 THINK THAT YOU ARE NOT, AND WHILE 
 YOU ARE, BE JOCUND. 
 
 THINGS THAT BE WERE LONG 
 SINCE MARKED UPON THE TABLET OF 
 CREATION. HEAVEN'S PENCIL HAS 
 
 NAUGHT TO DO WITH GOOD OR EVIL. 
 GOD SET ON FATE ITS NECESSARY 
 SEAL ; AND ALL OUR EFFORTS ARE 
 i BUT A VAIN STRIVING. 
 
 / ALL 
 
xxx 
 
 I WOULD RATHER IN THE TAVERN 
 WITH THEE POUR OUT ALL THE 
 THOUGHTS OF MY HEART, THAN WITH- 
 OUT Till I. GO AND MAKE MY PRAYER 
 UNTO HEAVEN. THIS, TRULY, O 
 CREATOR OF ALL ["HINGS PRESENT AND 
 TO COME, is MY RELIGION; WHETHER 
 THOU CASTES! ME INTO MH FLAMES, 
 OR MAKEST Ml GLAD WITH I HI. I I 
 01 1 1IY COUN l I.NAM. I . 
 
 I CANNOT LIGHTLY DISCLOSE MY 
 ! III. BAD AND I Hi: r.OOD 
 AI IKE I CANNl 'l \M1M II y MY SIMP] ! 
 I HOUGH 1. 1 B] HOLD A PI UT. I HAT I 
 CANNOT DES< RIB] J I HO] D \ SI CRET 
 IIIA1 1 CANNOT REVEAL. 
 
 in i nr I \( -i: OF l HE l'l CRJ ES OF 
 PR0VID1 Ml, NOT HING SU< H I DS S W E 
 R] SIGN \ I ION. AMONG Ml N NOT HING 
 
 CCEEDS SAV1 C0UNTERFEI1 \NI> 
 m P0< RISY. I 11 w r. I M ll 0Y1 D Al l 
 I III. MOST 5KI1 l l l. Rl -l S 111 \l I HE 
 HIM IN MIND CAN S< HI Ml . BU C l Al E 
 H IS Al Vi VYS 0\ ERTURNED MY PRO 
 
y s XXXI 
 
 ^ c 
 
 IF A STRANGER SERVES YOU FAITH- 
 FULLY, THINK OF HIM AS CLOSE OF 
 KIN. IF ONE OF YOUR KIN BETRAY 
 YOU, THINK OF HIM AS ACTING IN 
 ERROR. IF A POISON CURES YOU, 
 CALL IT AN ANTIDOTE ; IF AN ANTIDOTE 
 WORKS YOU ILL, CALL IT A POISON. 
 
 BEHOLD, THE TIME IS COME, WHEN 
 THE EARTH IS ABOUT TO CLOTHE IT- 
 SELF IN VERDURE, WHEN THE BLOS- 
 SOMS BREAKING FORTH OVER THE 
 BRANCHES, MAKE THEM BECOME AS 
 THE HAND OF MOSES, WHEN, AS IF 
 QUICKENED BY THE BREATH OF JESUS, 
 THE PLANTS SPRING FROM THE EARTH, 
 WHEN AT LAST THE CLOUDS OPEN 
 
 THEIR EYES TO WEEP. 
 V •* // 
 
 LONG HAVE I SUNG THE PRAISE OF 
 WINE AND DWELT AMONG THE THINGS 
 OF ITS SERVICE. MAY YOU BE HAPPY, 
 MY PHILOSOPHER, IN THE BELIEF 
 THAT YOU HAVE TAKEN WISDOM FOR 
 YOUR MASTER, BUT LEARN, TOO, THAT 
 THAT MASTER IS ONLY MY PUPIL. 
 
 \ 
 
XXX., 
 
 GIVE NOT THYSELF OVER TO CARE 
 AND TO GRIEF IN THE HOPE OF GAIN- 
 ING YELLOW OR WHITE MONEY IN THE 
 I ND. ENJOY THYSELF WITH THY 
 COMPANIONS, Bl FORE THY WARM 
 i, I 'I D, I OR THY 
 ENEMIES WILL FEASTINTHY ROOM 
 WHEN 'fH^TT7WtT _ ~Dl?PAR-l U '. 
 
 SINCE IT IS CERTAIN THAT WE MUST 
 NEEDS < <> HENCE, WHAT IS THE USE 
 OF BEING? WHY SHOULD WE STRIVE 
 SO EAGERLY AlllR UNATTAINABLE 
 HAPPINESS? SINCE FOR SOME UN- 
 KNOWN kl W>\ WE MAY HOI ABIDE 
 HERE, WER] II NOT WELL TO THINK 
 A LITTLE l PON OUR \ oN AGE K) COME ? 
 WHY SHOULD WE BE SO HE! D] I » 
 I HER] 
 
 \\ II VI HI \kl' DOES NOT Bl 1 1 D FOR 
 vmi; ABS1 M l, W II \l SOI I 1- NO! 
 I ill SI K\ \M OF V< 'l R 1 N< II \N 1 INC 
 ( ll \k\i> ? FOR I HOUGH VOU rw HI I D 
 TO NO ONE, 1 III Kl I- NO ON] WHO 
 DO] - NO! PAY HEED TO VOU. 
 
KCVI 
 
 XXXIII 
 
 THE WORLD UPBRAIDS ME AS A 
 DEBAUCHEE, AND YET I AM NOT GUILTY. 
 YE HOLY MEN, LOOK UPON YOURSELVES, 
 AND LEARN WHAT YE TRULY ARE. 
 YOU CHARGE ME WITH VIOLATION OF 
 THE HOLY LAW, BUT I HAVE COMMITTED 
 NO OTHER SINS THAN RIOT, DRUNKEN- 
 NESS, AND ADULTERY. 
 
 MY HAPPINESS IS INCOMPLETE 
 WHILE I AM SOBER. WHEN I AM 
 DRUNK, BLANK IGNORANCE OVERGROWS 
 MY REASON. THERE IS A STATE 
 BETWEEN CLEAR REASON AND INTOXI- 
 CATION. AH, WITH WHAT JOY DO I 
 MAKE MYSELF THE SLAVE OF THAT 
 STATE, FOR THEREIN LIES LIFE. 
 
 THIS WORLD IS BUT A HAIR'S 
 BREADTH IN OUR WRETCHED LIFE. 
 THE SOUL BUT THE FAINT TRACE OF 
 OUR BLENDED TEARS AND BLOOD. 
 HELL IS BUT A SHADOW OF THE VAIN 
 TOILS WE TAKE UPON OURSELVES. 
 PARADISE IS BUT THE MOMENT'S REST 
 WE SOMETIMES TASTE HERE. 
 D 
 

 XXXIV 
 
 
 IF YOU GIVE YOURSELF UP TO YOUR 
 PASSION, TO YOUR INSATIABLE DESIRE, 
 I PROPH1 I YOU THAT YOU 
 
 WILL GO HENCE AS POOR AS A BEGGAR. 
 -1 ! RATHER WHAT YOU ARK AND 
 WHENCE YOU COME, KNOW WHAT YOU 
 ARK AND LEARN WHITHER YOU GO. 
 
 who CAN BE! [EVE HI VI HE WHO 
 MADE THE CUP WOULD DREAM OF 
 DES1 RO\ ING ll? Al l THOSE FAIR 
 FACES, \l l. THOS1 I 0VE1 V LIMBS, Al 1. 
 rHOSE I Mil \\ I ING BODIES, WHA1 
 LOV1 H \s M \D1. I'HIM, AND WHAT 
 HATE Dl -ikons 1 HEM ? 
 
 II IS BUT THY DRUNKENNESS WHICH 
 MARIS urn DREAD DEATH AND FEAR 
 \o| hini.m 5Sj FOR II l- CI EAR HI \I 
 I kom THAI \oi HINGN] 5S I ill TREE 
 OF IMMORTALITY SHAL] SPRING. SINC1 
 MY SOU! HAS ll EN ITATED I'A 
 
 I III BR] \l H OF .11 SUS, I I 1 RNAI 
 DEA1 11 HAS FLED VFAR FROM ME. 
 
C/l 
 
 XXXV 
 
 COPY THE TULIP, THAT FLAMES 
 WITH THE NEW YEAR; TAKE, LIKE HER, 
 THE CUP IN YOUR HAND, AND DRINK 
 AT ALL ADVANTAGE YOUR WINE WITH 
 A LIGHT HEART, IN COMPANY WITH A 
 YOUTHFUL BEAUTY WITH TULIP 
 
 CHEEKS. FOR YON BLUE WHEEL MAY 
 LIKE A WHIRLWIND AT ANY MOMENT 
 DASH YOU DOWN. 
 
 ONE DROP OF WINE IS WORTH ALL 
 THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH : THE 
 TILE WHICH COVERS THE JAR IS WORTH 
 A THOUSAND LIVES. THE CLOTH WITH 
 WHICH WE WIPE THE LIPS MOISTENED 
 WITH WINE IS TRULY MORE PRECIOUS 
 THAN A THOUSAND PIECES. 
 
 O, MY FRIENDS, WHEN I AM SPED, 
 APPOINT A MEETING AND WHEN YE 
 HAVE MET TOGETHER, BE YE GLAD 
 THEREOF, AND WHEN THE CUP-BEARER 
 HOLDS IN HER HAND A FLAGON OF 
 OLD WINE, THEN THINK UPON OLD 
 KHAYYAM AND DRINK TO HIS MEMORY. 
 
 
c 
 
 xxxvi 
 • 
 
 THERE IS NO SHIELD TO SAVE VOU 
 FROM Mil". SPEAR-CAST OF DESTINY. 
 II', SILVER, EACH AVAILS 
 MOT. I Hi: MORE I PONDER ON THIS 
 WOR1 D AM- ITS GEAR, THE MORE 1 All 
 ED I II \I in BE GOOD IS ALL J 
 Mil. Kl ST AVAILS NOT. 
 
 I PITY THE HEART THAT IS NOT 
 PROMPTED TO ABSTINENCE, FOR II IS 
 1111. DAILY PREY OF PASSIONS. ONLY 
 
 rill, ill \K l l H \I I-^ I R] l. FROM CARE 
 I \\ i i ikriv HAPPY : Aii.H r IN 
 EXCESS "1 THAT MAI I. IS MERE VI XA- 
 I ION. 
 
 HOW I ONG w li I" l HOG Al IT.ICT 
 I H\ SOUL W] III THE FAILURE OF THY 
 \Mi:| riONS? I ROUB1 L I- THE LOT OF 
 l HOSE WHO ARE I \ki 111. FOR l HE 
 FUTURE. PASS I HY I 11 L IN 
 Mil Kl I ORE, AND GI\ I NOT THYS1 l F 
 UP I" l HE CAR] - "l 1 HIS WOR] D. 
 I HAT w INE w ll l. in NO WISE 
 1N< Kl kSE llli: Bl OK THY 
 
c*t/ 
 
 // XXXVII 
 
 HE WHO HAS THE WISDOM TO KEEP 
 HIS HEART CONTENTED HAS LOST NO 
 HOUR IN SORROW; HE HAS EITHER 
 DEVOTED HIMSELF TO SEEKING THE 
 GRACE OF GOD, OR HE HAS GAINED 
 TRANQUILLITY OF SOUL OVER THE 
 BRIMMING WINE-CUP. 
 
 TO DRINK WINE AND TO MAKE 
 MERRY, SUCH IS MY SCHEME OF LIFE. 
 TO PAY NO HEED TO HERETIC OR 
 DEVOTEE, SUCH IS MY CREED. I ASKED 
 THE BRIDE OF ALL THE HUMAN RACE, 
 " WHAT IS THY MARRIAGE PORTION ? " 
 AND SHE ANSWERED, SMILING, " MY 
 MARRIAGE PORTION LIES IN THE JOY 
 OF THY HEART." 
 
 REJOICE, THEREFORE, FOR THE 
 TIME COMETH QUICKLY WHEN ALL 
 WHOM THOU BEHOLDEST NOW SHALL 
 BE HIDDEN IN THE EARTH. DRINK, 
 DRINK WINE, AND LET NOT THE CARES 
 OF THIS WORLD OVERWHELM YOU. 
 THOSE WHO COME AFTER THEE WILL 
 TOO SOON BECOME A PREY. 
 

 XXXVIII 
 
 NO LAY EVER FINKS MY SOUL 
 1 ROM AMAZl MINI, NO NIGHT 
 EVER 1 1 N I »S MY BOSOM FREE FROM 
 THE TEARS THAT TRICKLE FROM MY 
 EVES. THE UNEASE THAT SWAYS ME 
 FORBIDS THE CUP OF MY HEAD FROM 
 BRIMMING WITH WINK. ALAS, HOW 
 SHALL AN [NVERTED CUP BE EVER 
 III. I I 
 
 WHEN COD BUILT UP MY BODY OUT 
 ok CI AY, HE KNEW BEFOREHAND THE 
 Iklll 01 ALL MY DEEDS. IT IS 
 
 IN Mil \\< I OF HIS WILL THAI I A 
 5INN1 R H W 1 SINN! l>. WHY 
 
 NETHER HI IL AWA1 1 ? 
 
 WHAT TIME MY BEING SEEMED TO 
 LEAN l" PRAY] R AND I \S1 ING, 1 
 DEEMED FOR \ MOM! M I II \ 1 1 WAS 
 AB0U1 I" [OUCH MH '■"\l OF MY 
 in SIR] - : III. \i \-, A BR] Mil HAS 
 SUFFICED l" DESTRO\ I Ml II 1 ICACY 
 01 M\ ATI I 1 IONS, AND A HALF 
 Ml \-i R] 01 W INL H\s SET MY FASTS 
 
ex. 
 
 XXXIX 
 
 ALL MY BEING IS ATTRACTED BY 
 THE SIGHT OF THE FAIR FACES DYED 
 WITH THE HUE OF THE ROSE; MY 
 HEART DELIGHTS TO SAVOUR THE CUP 
 OF WINE. YEA, I WISH TO ENJOY THE 
 AWARD OF EACH OF MY MEMBERS 
 BEFORE THOSE MEMBERS FALL AGAIN 
 INTO THE ALL FROM WHICH THEY 
 SPRANG. 
 
 YESTERDAY I VISITED THE WORK- 
 SHOP OF A POTTER : THERE I BEHELD 
 TWO THOUSAND POTS, SOME SPEAKING, 
 AND SOME HOLDING THEIR PEACE. 
 EACH ONE SEEMED TO SAY TO ME, 
 " WHERE IS THEN THE POTTER, WHERE 
 THE BUYER OF POTS, WHERE THE 
 SELLER ? " 
 
 I AM WORTHY NEITHER OF HEAVEN 
 NOR YET OF HELL. GOD KNOWS FROM 
 WHAT CLAY HE FASHIONED ME. I AM 
 AS HERETICAL AS A DERVISH, AS ILL- 
 FAVOURED AS A HARLOT, I HAVE 
 NEITHER FAITH NOR WEALTH, NOR 
 HOPE OF PARADISE. 
 
 
XI. 
 
 rERDAY, PASSING DRUNKEN II- 
 
 MD I v. 1 RN DOOR, I BEHELD 
 1' MAN, 1 II I OF WINE, BEARING 
 A GOURD UPON HIS BACK. I SPAKE 
 TO HIM AND SAID, " OH, OLD MAX, 
 DOST THOU NOT FEAR GOD?" HE 
 ANSWERED ME, " TH1 MERCY 
 
 AIIII HIM — GO, THEREFORE, AND 
 DRINK." 
 
 WINE, WHICH IS VALUED BY THE 
 MAN OF UNDERSTANDING, IS FOR ME 
 I HI. w \i i k OF I. II 1 . 1 I IS BALM TO 
 MY III ART, AND AN ELIXIR WHICH RE- 
 MEWS Mil STRENGTH OF MY SOUL. 
 HATH NOT GOD HI MSI LF SAID : " MIK 
 U kNKIND IS l OUND IN 
 WIN! ." 
 
 MAN, MIV PASSION, I IKE 
 
 \ w \ivn DOG, Cl\ l S FORTH 
 
 HOLLOW M MASKS THE 
 
 WILES "l Mil FOX, IT SEEKS MIK 
 
 SLEEP OF l Hi H \ki : ll BL1 Ni - i\ 
 : OF 1 ill I IGER will! 
 MIL li I] Mil 9t 
 
ex 
 
 WHO LED THEE HERE THIS NIGHT 
 TO ME, THUS DRENCHED WITH WINE? 
 WHO, LIFTING THE LIGHT VEIL THAT 
 COVERED THEE, HAS GUIDED THEE TO 
 MY THRESHOLD? WHO HAS SWEPT 
 THEE AWAY AGAIN MORE SWIFTLY 
 THAN THE WIND, TO FEED MORE 
 FIERCELY THE FLAME THAT BURNT 
 ALREADY BRIGHTLY IN THINE ABSENCE? 
 
 EVERY HEART IN WHICH HEAVEN 
 HATH SET THE LAMP OF LOVE, 
 WHETHER THAT HEART INCLINE TO 
 MOSQUE OR SYNAGOGUE, IF ITS NAME - 
 BE WRITTEN IN THE BOOK OF LOVE, 
 IT IS FREED FROM THE FEAR OF HELL 
 AND THE HOPE OF PARADISE. 
 
 O YOU WHO OUT OF ALL THE 
 WORLD ART DEAREST TO MY HEART, 
 MORE PRECIOUS THAN THE SOUL WHICH 
 QUICKENS ME OR THAN THE EYES 
 THAT LIGHT MY PATH, THERE IS * 
 NOTHING, OH MY BELOVED, DEARER 
 THAN LIFE, AND YET YOU, AH, YOU ARE 
 A HUNDRED TIMES MORE DEAR. 
 
 C4/.IF 
 

 XI. II 
 
 HOW FAIR ARE THF. GREEN FRT 
 
 ! Ml. I [VING m REAM. SURELY 
 
 IHI.Y SPRANG ONCE FROM THE LIP OF 
 
 CELESTIAL FAIR TRAMPLE 
 
 I HIM NOT Willi SCORN, FOR THEY 
 SPRING I ROM I HI. DUST OF A TULIP- 
 
 I IN III. I A( 1.. 
 
 WE ARE ENDURING NAUGHT BUT 
 i ARK AND CARE IN THIS WORLD WHICH 
 01 1 l RS US A I I BETING HARBOURAGE. 
 ALAS, Noi ONE OF ALL CREATION'S 
 RIDDLES HAS 1:1 IN READ TO US, AND 
 W] DEPART HENCE Willi SORRY 
 HEAR I -. 
 
 WHIN Till: DAY ARRIVETH, WHIN. 
 Willi MY HEAD THROWN BACK,] FALL 
 
 \ I I ill Mir or DEATH, whin i hi: 
 hi STR0\ IN'. W'.i I SHA1 I. II w E M \Hi: 
 Ml l I K i i \ in A BIRD w i i iiorr 
 I 1 \l HERS ; oil, rill N, M I l HOD I HAT 
 <>F MY Dl ST A « INl.-l 1 v.. IN IS 
 I okmi i. — i OR will » CAN SAY BUT THAI 
 mi ODOUR or nil WINE MAN 
 . M MN ci AY ? 
 
CXSVI XLm 
 
 MASTER, MAKE LAWFUL BUT ONE 
 ALONE OF ALL OUR WISHES. HOLD 
 YOUR PEACE AND GUIDE US ON THE 
 ROAD TO GOD. TRULY WE WALK 
 STRAIGHTLY, IT IS YOU WHO GO 
 ASTRAY. HEAL YOUR EYES AND LEAVE 
 US TO OUR PEACE. 
 
 SINCE THIS VAIN WORLD ABIDETH 
 NOT, I WILL OCCUPY MYSELF ONLY 
 WITH GUILE, I WILL GIVE UP MY 
 THOUGHTS TO PLEASURE AND LIMPID 
 WINE. THEY SAY UNTO ME, " HATH 
 NOT GOD FORBIDDEN IT ? "— HE CAN 
 TRULY NEVER HAVE GIVEN ME THIS 
 COMMANDMENT, FOR IF HE HAD I 
 COULD NOT OBEY IT ! 
 
 WHEN I DRAW NEAR UNTO THE 
 GEAR OF THIS WORLD, I BEHOLD 
 ALL MANKIND SEIZING ON THE GOOD 
 THINGS IT CONTAINS WITHOUT ANY 
 MERIT OF THEIRS, WHILE TO ME, OH 
 ALL-POWERFUL GOD, NOTHING IS 
 VOUCHSAFED BUT THE SHIPWRECK 
 OF MY HOPES. 
 
 
 7h 
 
 

 
 . XI. IV 
 
 A 
 
 \ MOUTHFUL OF WINE IS WORTH 
 MORI. THAN THE KINGDOM or KAI 
 KHOSROUj IT IS MORE DESIRABLE THAN 
 THE THRONE OF KAI KOBAD OR THE 
 
 RY OF THOUS. THE SIGHS WITH 
 WHICH A LOVER DISTURBS THE DAWN 
 
 PREFERABLE TO THE HOWLINGS 
 OF SAN< riMONIOUS HYI'OCRITES. 
 
 IF I PO DRINK WINE IT IS NOT 
 FOR MINE OWN SELFISH GRATIFICA- 
 TION, II IS NOT FOR RIOT'S SAKE OR 
 TO BOLD ALOOF FROM RELIGION AND 
 Till. \ Ik t IT IS BUT THAT I 
 
 M W ESCAPE I <>R a MOM1 NT I ROM 
 MYSELF. NO OTHER PURPOSE SPURS 
 TO DRINK AND BE DRUNKJ N. 
 
 LK SAY THAT THERE IS A HIT I.. 
 THIS l- a \ UN ERROR, IN which 
 >U1 D BE PI \ilh, FOR IF 
 1 III ki WERJ \ SELL FOR LOVERS 
 AND l OR BIBB] RS OF W INI , WHY 
 Hi w i \ umi i. Bl . I ROM tO-MORROW 
 . VS I Mil V AS Mil HOLLOW OF 
 MY HAM'. 
 
Cxx>) i xlv 
 
 IF YOU HAVE DRUNK WINE FAITH- 
 FULLY ALL THE WEEK, DO NOT HOLD 
 YOUR HAND ON THE SABBATH J FOR, 
 BY OUR HOLY FAITH, THERE IS NO DIF- 
 FERENCE BETWEEN THAT DAY AND 
 ANOTHER. BE THOU THE WORSHIPPER 
 OF THE ALL-HIGH AND NOT A WOR- 
 SHIPPER OF THE DAYS OF THE WEEK. 
 
 DEAR MY GOD, YOU ARE MERCIFUL, 
 AND MERCY IS PITY. WHY THEN HAS 
 THE GREATEST SINNER BEEN SHUT 
 OFF FROM PARADISE? IF YOU ONLY 
 PARDON ME BECAUSE I HAVE OBEYED 
 YOU, WHAT MERCY IS THAT? IT 
 WOULD BE MERCIFUL TO FORGIVE ME, 
 SINNER THAT I AM. 
 
 PUT WISDOM BY, AND TAKE THE 
 CUP IN HAND. CEASE TO PERPLEX 
 YOURSELF ABOUT HEAVEN AND HELL. 
 SELL THY SILKEN TURBAN TO BUY 
 WINE WITH THE PRICE AND HAVE NO 
 FEAR. PLUCK OFF THAT COSTLY HEAD- 
 GEAR — CONTENT THY HEAD WITH A 
 WOOLLEN CAP. 
 

 XLVI 
 
 Tiir.Y BED mi: prink, no wink 
 
 DURING THIS MONTH, FOR THIS MONTH 
 I> THE PROPH] 1 II' IN THAT 
 
 MONTH FOR THAT IS THE MONTH OF 
 GOD. VERY WELL, LEAVE THOSE TWO 
 MONTHS TO GOD AND HIS PROPH KT, 
 AND LET US DRINK. DEEP IN THE 
 MONTH 01 RAMAZAN, SINCE THAT 
 I IS KK-1.K\ ED TO US, 
 
 ALTHOUGH WINE IS FORBIDDEN, 
 CI VS1 h) DRINK nil ; 
 
 DRINK, l MG AND EVENTIDE, 
 
 DRINK TO Mil. SOUND OF SONG, AND 
 n: Mil ODV OF Mir. li \ki'. win N 
 HAS! PROCURED wink GLOWING 
 LIKE THE RUBY, POUR ONE DROP ON 
 Mil. EAR! II, AND DRINK 1 HE KI ST. 
 
 N 1MB MY mi RTTS ONE BY 
 r\Kl MY DEFEI I- BY M N- \r A TIME. 
 PARDON 1A I KV SIN FOR I HI I 0V1 OF 
 
 FEED Mil. FIR] 
 II Ml Wl III Mil BREATH OF PAS 
 PARDON US IN Mil MEMORY OF Mil: 
 i UK PROPHET Oh' ' 
 
c, 
 
 THE MULTITUDE OF CREEDS HAS 
 DIVIDED MANKIND INTO SEVENTY-TWO 
 NATIONS. OF ALL THESE DOCTRINES 
 I HAVE CHOSEN THAT OF THY LOVE. 
 OF WHAT MEANING ARE THE WORDS : 
 IMPIETY, ISLAM, FAITH, SIN? THOU 
 ART MY SOLE DESIRE. AWAY FROM 
 ME ALL THESE VAIN PRETENCES. 
 
 TRULY THE WINE IN THE CUP IS A 
 SHINING LIFE, IN THE BODY OF THE 
 FLAGON IT IS A CLEAR SOUL. NO 
 CHURLISH FELLOW IS WORTHY OF MY' 
 FELLOWSHIP. ONLY THE WINE CUP 
 DESERVES TO ENTER THEREIN, FOR IT 
 IS AT THE SAME TIME A SOLID AND A 
 DIAPHANOUS BODY. 
 
 THIS AGED CARAVANSERAI WHICH 
 MEN CALL THE WORLD, THIS ALTER- 
 NATING HOME OF LIGHT AND NIGHT, 
 IS BUT THE FAG END OF A FEAST 
 OF A HUNDRED SUCH LORDS AS JAM- 
 SHID. IT IS BUT A TOMB SERVING AS 
 A PILLOW FOR THE SLEEP OF A HUN- 
 DRED SUCH KINGS AS BAHRAM. 
 

 XI.VIII 
 
 IF THE ROSE [S NOT OUR PORTION 
 Mil. THORNS REMAIN? IF 
 rill I I'.ll I DOES NOT KI At H US, DOES 
 NOT Till. FIRE REMAIN? [F WE HAVE 
 NO! I 111. GARMENT, THE TEMPLE NOR 
 THE PRI] ST, !••' NOT THE MOSQUE, 
 THE DOME, THE MINARET, REMAIN? 
 
 \Vll!l:l ARE THE DANCERS ? WHERE 
 IS 1 III. WINE ? II VST] N I H \T I MAY 
 DO HONOUR TO THE GOURD. HAPPY 
 IS I III. HEART WHICH REM1 MB] RS 
 THE WINE IN I III. MORNING. OH ! 
 THERE EXIS1 1 I IK I I I HINGS IN THIS 
 WORLD WHICH ARE l'l \K CO ML — A 
 HEAD OVERTAKEN Willi WINE, A FAIR 
 MISTRESS, AND Mil. SOUND OF SING- 
 
 O Will I l 01 111 WIN, HEED] 1 
 BREAD VND SALT, YOU II \\ E ME 
 
 l\ 1 R N \M l> AS A FISH. I ill u III II. 
 
 i m W] w i R w i w i i ii CI onus 
 FOR mi N, I in REFORE II' IS MORE 
 CHAR] i \ri I l li IN HUT. W III l I. 
 OF in w l n. 
 
qXL\v XLIX 
 
 O KHAYYAM, SAD IS HIS LOT WHO 
 LETS HIS HEART BE VEXED BY EARTHLY 
 TRIBULATIONS. DRINK THEN TO THE 4. 
 TOUCH OF THE LUTE, DRINK WINE IN 
 A CRYSTAL CUP, DRINK BEFORE THE 
 CRYSTAL IS DASHED AGAINST A STONE. 
 
 TELL ME, FRIEND, WHAT HAVE I 
 ACQUIRED OF THE RICHES OF THIS 
 WORLD? — NOTHING. WHAT HAS FLEET- 
 ING TIME LEFT IN MY HANDS ? 
 
 NOTHING. I AM THE TORCH OF JOY, 
 BUT ONCE THE TORCH IS EXTINCT I 
 EXIST NO LONGER. I AM THE CUP 
 OF JAMSHID, BUT THE CUP ONCE 
 BROKEN I EXIST NO MORE. 
 
 BEHOLD THE DAWN APPEARS. SHE 
 HAS TORN ASIDE THE VEIL OF NIGHT. 
 RISE, THEN, AND EMPTY THE MORN- 
 ING'S CUP. WHY SO SAD? DRINK, 
 HEART, DRINK, FOR THESE DAWNS 
 WILL FOLLOW AND FOLLOW WITH 
 THEIR FACES TURNED TO US, WHEN 
 OUR FACES SHALL BE TURNED TO THE 
 EARTH. 
 

 II THE Will. I I. OF HEAVEN hi. MI S 
 MI. BREAD, AM I NOT PROMPT KOK 
 WAR ? IF I II \\ i: NOT A NOB] ! 
 
 ION, II W I I NOT MY SHAME ? 
 I >, Nil. CUP BRIMMED WITH A CHIM- 
 IN!. HI. I HAT WILL NOT DRINK 
 Dl SERVES TO BE STONED. 
 
 5INC1 1 III 1 LIES, WHAT MATTERS IT 
 WHETHER IT BE SWEET OR BITTER? 
 5IN< I. OUR SOIL MUST ESCAP1 
 I HROUGH OUR LIPS, WHAT MAI 1 I RS I I 
 W 111 I HER IT II AT N USH \1TR OR 
 BABYLON? DRINK, THEN, FOR AFTER 
 rHOU AND I ARE DUST, THE Mi >< >N 
 WILL FOR MANN DAYS PASS I ROM 
 HER LAS! 1" HER I [RST QUAR I 1 R, 
 \ND FROM HER 1 [RSI I" HER 1 VST. 
 
 WHY, WHIN ["0 DA\ I Hi: ROSl 
 FORI INI Bl OSSOMS, IS l HE « [NE-CUP 
 MISSING FROM VOUR HANDS? DRINK) 
 MY FRIl NI>, DRINK RID \\ INI , FOR 
 I l Ml IS \ MERCILESS 1111 OW, \N1> 
 ■ HARD TO I END AGAIN \ DAN 
 1 IRE I HIS. 
 
c 
 
 L 
 
 I.l 
 
 THE MONTH OF RAMAZAN HAS 
 COME, THE TIME OF THE WINE IS 
 OVER. YES, THE DAYS OF THAT DE- 
 LICIOUS DRINK AND OF OUR EASY 
 LIFE, HATH FALLEN FAR FROM US. 
 WOE'S ME FOR THE WINE THAT WAITS 
 UNDRUNKEN IN THE JAR, AND THE 
 EYES OF THE FAIR WOMEN THAT 
 BURN FOR US IN VAIN. 
 
 THE PALACE, WHERE BAHRAM LOVED 
 TO TROLL THE BOWL, IS NOW THE 
 RESTING-PLACE OF STAGS, THE LAIR 
 OF LIONS. SEE HOW THIS BAHRAM 
 WHO LOVED TO SNARE THE WILD ASS 
 WITH A RUNNING NOOSE IS SNARED 
 HIMSELF IN HIS TURN BY THE TOMB. 
 
 WE HAVE COME TOO LATE INTO 
 THIS WHIRL AND WELTER OF LIFE, 
 AND WE HAVE FALLEN HERE, BELOW 
 THE LEVEL OF MANKIND. AH ! SINCE 
 LIFE DOES NOT, ALAS, MOVE ACCORD- 
 ING TO OUR WISHES, IT WERE BETTER 
 IT SHOULD CEASE; FOR ALREADY WE 
 HAVE REACHED SATIETY. 
 
CL 
 
 I. II 
 
 
 A I ["HOUGH SIN HAS LEFT Ml. EVIL 
 01 FAVOl R, UNH U»PY, I AM NOT WTTH- 
 . IN WHICH I AM LIKE INTO 
 I UK IDOLATORS wilo PIN THEIR FAITH 
 TO Nil. GODS OF THEIR TEMPLES. 
 NON1 I III. I I SS ON I 111. MORN WHEN 
 I MUST DIE OF THE I VS1 NIGHT'S RIOT 
 I Wll I CI VMOUR FOR WINE AND CA] I. 
 MY PARAMOUR, TOR WHAT CARE 
 I FOR HEAVEN OR ill I I 3 
 
 OH, MY PEAR COMPANIONS, POUR 
 Ml WINE TO MAKE MY COUNTENANCE 
 CLEAR WITH THE COLOUR OF RUBIES. 
 WHIN I AM DEAD, WASH ME IN WINE, 
 \M< MAKE MY MINK AND M\ COl I IN 
 OF I HE Wool. OF I HE VINE. 
 
 \ i'K \i i. ii r ^\ w INI IS rii n k 
 l H \N Nil I Mil RY 01 I VMSHID. THE 
 ri i.m ill! CUP IS BETTER 
 
 ill \N Nil GIFTS oi ii \i i\i i VI. 
 I III SIGH WHK II SI IPS Al DAWNING 
 I ROM I III BR] \-l 01 HIM w HO W] N I 
 IK lo r.i D, IS BETTER I HAN I ill 
 I \MI.N fATIONS 01 MAIN 
 
THE CLOUDS SPREAD OVER THE FACE 
 OF THE HEAVENS, AND RAIN PATTERS 
 ON THE SWARD. HOW COULD IT BE 
 POSSIBLE TO LIVE FOR A SINGLE SECOND 
 WITHOUT CRIMSON WINE ? THIS GREEN 
 BEFORE ME DELIGHTS MY EYE, BUT 
 THE GRASS WHICH SHALL SPRING 
 FROM MY DUST WHOSE EYE WILL DE- 
 LIGHT IN? 
 
 OH ! THOUGHTLESS MAN, BE NOT 
 DECEIVED BY THIS WORLD, SINCE 
 THOU KNOWEST ITS PURSUITS ! THROW 
 NOT THY PRECIOUS LIFE TO THE 
 WIND. HASTEN TO SEEK THY FRIEND, 
 AND DELAY NOT TO DRINK WINE. 
 
 FOR THE LOVE OF THEE WHICH 
 POSSESSES MY HEART I AM READY 
 TO ACCEPT ALL MANNER OF REPROOF, 
 AND IF I BREAK MY VOW, I WILL 
 BEAR THE BLAME THEREOF. OH, IF 
 UNTIL THE LAST DAY I SHOULD EN- 
 DURE THE PAIN THOU CAUSEST ME, 
 THE TIME WOULD SEEM BUT TOO 
 SHORT. 
 
L1V 
 
 (> III' \RT, MY HF.ART, SIN< I I HI 
 \ I i\ I \-l- OF All. THIS WOR1 D'S 
 Gl \K [S BUT A 1 \i:l i:, w UN' HO YOU 
 UJVENTURE IN SUCH AN INIIMI1 
 \r.Y-s OF SORROWS? TRUST THYSELF 
 TO FATE, UPHOl D Mil EVIL, lok WHAT 
 I HI II N< II H IS I RA( ED w II. I. NOT 
 i.l 111 At ED FOR J 
 
 \l I. WHO SAVE SET OUT UPON 
 III! LONG JOURNEY, WHO HAS COME 
 BA< K. 'I II \l I MAN' ASK HIM 1 [DINGS? 
 MY I I'll CJDS, I \kl HI I I> TO LET 
 NAUGH1 GOBY IN nil. HOPE OF HOPES 
 FOR, BE SURE, Yol' will N"l COME 
 
 I. At K AC \IN. 
 
 M\< I I V IKY WANING NIGH I, 
 
 i \ l is w \ninc DAY, CUTS OFF A 
 < \N 1 1 r or VOUR Ml I . I'm NOT Al LOM 
 I Hi ^l NIGH i^ anm DAYS I" HI AP 
 I HU k WITH DUST. I'M I I HI M 
 .;\ll \ l \. l OR, ai \-, w II \i \ \. 
 
 i imi YOV wii i. II GON1 III NCI 
 wiill l NIGHTS AND DAYS SI II. I WAN 
 \NI» WANE. 
 
LV 
 
 THAT HEAVENLY WHEEL, WHICH 
 TELLS ITS TALE TO NO MAN, HAS 
 MERCILESSLY SLAIN A THOUSAND 
 MONARCHS AND A THOUSAND FAVOR- 
 ITES ; DRINK YOUR WINE, THEN, FOR 
 IT GIVES BACK LIFE TO NONE. ALAS, 
 NO ONE OF THOSE THAT QUIT THIS 
 WORLD WILL E'ER COME BACK TO IT. 
 
 O THOU, WHO LORDEST OVER THE 
 LORDS OF THE EARTH, DOST THOU 
 KNOW THE DAYS WHEN WINE DE- 
 LIGHTETH THE HEART? THEY ARE 
 IN GOOD SOOTH THE MONDAY, THE 
 TUESDAY, THE WEDNESDAY, THE 
 THURSDAY, THE FRIDAY, THE SATUR- 
 DAY, AND THE SUNDAY TO BOOT. 
 
 HEEDLESS MAN, THY FLESHLY BODY 
 IS NAUGHT, YON VAULT BUILT UP OF 
 SEVEN SHINING HEAVENS IS NAUGHT. 
 GIVE THYSELF UP TO ALL DELIGHT IN 
 THIS KINGDOM OF MISRULE, FOR OUR 
 LIFE IS ONLY BOUND TO IT FOR A 
 MOMENT, AND THAT MOMENT ITSELF 
 IS NOTHING. 
 

 IV I 
 
 [HIS CARAVAN OF LIFE PASSETH IN 
 \ STRANGE MANNER — BEWARE, OH, 
 OR II I- 1 HE riME OF THY 
 II I VSURE WHICH II. 1.1 III FROM THEE 
 IHIS. rROUBLE NOT Uhsi.l.l, rill.Ki:- 
 FOR THE (.Kill WHICH 
 \w.\ll I i ii OUR l Kll NDS ON THE 
 MORROW, FOR BEHOLD HOW THE 
 M'. Ill PASSE1 H AWA\ ! 
 
 ; [NG \N 01 I) \l \N SI ' 
 FROM IHI WINE-SHOP, Willi HIS 
 PRAYER MAT ON His SHOULDERS, AND 
 \ I I \'."N IN HIS H \M>, 1 SAID TO 
 HIM, ''WHAT MI \N- IHIs. OH, MY MAS- 
 I I K ?"' \NI» HI. M \M VNSWER TO ME, 
 "DRINK WINE, MY BROTHER, FOR nils 
 ■ IS BUT A BKl \1 H OF W INI'." 
 
 A LOVE-1 ORN NIGH II N. \l I . STRAY- 
 ING INI" \ '■ mm \, Wl> BEHOLDING 
 illi • \\l> IHI! CUP 
 
 I 11 I I l> Willi WINE, FLEW TO MY EAR 
 
 \NI> -\\... " Bl \l'\ 1-1 1> I RIBND, 
 I Hi Rl I- NO Rl CM. I IN'. I 111 \ \\- 
 ISHED I Ii 
 
ClXWl LV " 
 
 HE WHO HAS LAID THE FOUNDA- 
 TIONS OF THE EARTH, OF THE WHEEL 
 OF THE HEAVENS, WHAT WOUNDS HAS 
 HE NOT HOLLOWED OUT IN THE UN- 
 HAPPY HEART OF MAN ! WHAT RUBY- 
 COLOURED LIPS HAS HE NOT BURIED IN 
 THIS LITTLE GLOBE OF EARTH ? WHAT 
 MUSK-SCENTED TRESSES HAS HE NOT 
 HIDDEN IN THE BOSOM OF THE DUST? 
 
 KHAYYAM, YOUR BODY IS LIKE UNTO 
 A TENT, THE SOUL THEREOF IS THE 
 SULTAN, AND HIS LAST HOME IS 
 NOTHINGNESS. WHEN THE SULTAN 
 
 QUITS HIS PAVILION, THE FATAL FER- 
 RASH STRIKES IT, TO SET IT UP AT 
 ANOTHER STAGE. 
 
 EACH DROP OF WINE WHICH THE 
 CUP-BEARER POURS INTO THE CUP 
 WILL QUENCH THE FIRE OF GRIEF IN 
 THY BURNING EYES. IS IT NOT SAID, 
 O GREAT GOD, THAT WINE IS AN 
 ELIXIR WHICH DRIVES AWAY ALL THE 
 SORROWS THAT WEIGH DOWN THE 
 HEART? 
 
CL 
 
 I.VIII 
 
 WHIN THE VIOLET HAS DYED HER 
 VEIL, WHIN llll. ZEPHYR HAS MADE 
 I III. ROSES EXPAND 1 HI IK II u I 5, 
 IHI\ 111. WHO IS WISE Will. I'KINK 
 WINK Willi \ COMPANION WHOSE BODV 
 IS WHITE As SILVER, AND IL'KN 
 DOWN HIE CUP UPON I Mi. EARTH. 
 
 llll MAN CAN Nl.vi l: VALUE 
 
 THE DIVINE MERCY AS WE DO. A 
 ..,! R i \N Ni \ I R UND] RSTAND 
 I HI. I. I.IKE THINE OWN FAMILIAR 
 FRIEND. THOU SAYEST, "il THOU 
 5INNEST, I WILL SEND THEE TO 
 HI. I I .'' GO, I III THAT K) <>NI who 
 KN. i\\ 1 | il inn NOT. 
 
 O ! MY HEART, ACT \- II U I 1 111 
 WEALTH ^\ [HIS WORLD WERE 1H1N1 
 
 llllNK lll\l ["HIS lloi^i IS FUR- 
 NISH] l' Willi \l 1 fHINGS, Ml \l II' [S 
 ADORNED SUMPTUOl -I Y | ANN PASS I in 
 111 I. JOY! Ill Y IN I HIS DISTR Ull D 
 SPH] RE. SA1 rO I H\ -M I 1 il \ I i HOU 
 R] STES1 III n I ok BU r \ 1 EW DAYS, 
 \NI> will 1 111 N ARISE AND M PAR I , 
 
cakQKW 
 
 LIX 
 
 THE DAYS OF OUR ABIDING ON THIS 
 EARTH ARE WORTHLESS WITHOUT 
 WINE AND THE CUP-BEARER, WORTH- 
 LESS WITHOUT THE SOFT MELODIES 
 OF IRAM'S LUTE. I HAVE STUDIED 
 CLOSELY THE COURSE OF EARTHLY 
 THINGS, AND I KNOW THAT JOY AND 
 PLEASURE ALONE ARE DEAR, ALL ELSE 
 IS WORTHLESS. 
 
 DRAWN ALONG BY THE FLYING FEET 
 OF TIME, WHICH ONLY BESTOWS ITS 
 GIFTS ON THE LEAST WORTHY, MY LIFE 
 IS OVERWHELMED WITH PAIN AND 
 TRAVAIL. IN THE GARDEN OF MAN- 
 KIND MY HEART IS CLOSED UP LIKE 
 THE BUD OF A ROSE, AND LIKE A 
 TULIP IT IS DRENCHED WITH BLOOD. 
 
 KHAYYAM, WHO SEWED THE TENTS 
 OF LEARNING, HAS FALLEN SUDDENLY 
 INTO THE CRATER OF DESPAIR, AND 
 THERE LIES CALCINED. THE KNIFE 
 OF FATE HAS CUT HIS BEING'S THREAD, 
 AND THE IMPATIENT WORLD HAS SOLD 
 HIM FOR A SONG. 
 
LX 
 
 IN SPRING PIMP. 1 LOVE TO SIT IN 
 Mil: MEADOW WITH A PARAMOUR PER- 
 FECT \- A HI >1 ::l \NI) A GOODLY 
 >1 WIN! , AND THOUGH I MAN BE 
 BLAMED FOR THIS, YET HOLD ME 
 : I II \N A hoc, IK EVER I DREAM 
 "I PARADISE. _ 
 
 SW] II 1- IT TO DRINK RED WIN] 
 IN \ I \|R CUP. SW] MM IS TO HEAR 
 nil WEDDED MELODI1 S <'l I 
 ANli HARPS. Mil. FANATIC WHO RKCKS 
 ■I I ill JOYS OF A CUP OF WINE 
 I- PI I VSING ONLY WHEN III'. 
 1 HOUSAND MILES AH AY 1 ROM is. 
 
 '.I r i H\ -l I F DANCING GIR] S, n INI . 
 \NH \ MISTR] — AS 1 UR AS nil 
 HOURIS, II' INDEED THERE BE HOURIS, 
 ok m ik OU I A LIMPID STREAM i .1 -11- 
 ING B\ \ Ml \i»o\v, if ANY Ml \I>o\v 
 Nl» ASK FOR NO PI l 1 I R LOT. 
 \ i \ YOURS! l P No MORE WITH AN 
 EXTINGUISH] l' III I P, FOR 1 RLI.V 
 nil Rl l- N. i I o in R PAR U)IS1 I H \N 
 fHIS, IP \N\ PARADISE llll.Ki: P.P.. 
 
cc^xy LXI 
 
 BE ON YOUR GUARD, MY FRIEND, 
 FOR YOU WILL BE SUNDERED FROM 
 YOUR SOUL, YOU WILL PASS BEHIND 
 THE CURTAIN OF THE SECRETS OF 
 HEAVEN. DRINK WINE, FOR YOU KNOW 
 NOT WHENCE YOU COME, BE MERRY, 
 FOR YOU KNOW NOT WHERE YOU GO. 
 
 ALTHOUGH THE CALL OF DUTY HAS 
 LED MY FEET TO THE MOSQUE, IT IS 
 NOT TRULY TO LIFT UP MY VOICE IN 
 PRAYER. I STOLE ONE DAY FROM 
 THERE A CARPET, AND SINCE THIS 
 IS WORN OUT, I HAVE COME HERE 
 AGAIN AND AGAIN. 
 
 LET US NO LONGER ALLOW THE 
 CARES OF THIS WORLD TO OPPRESS 
 OUR SOULS. LET US GIVE OURSELVES 
 UP ENTIRELY TO DRINKING WINE. 
 PURE LIMPID AND ROSE-COLOURED. 
 WINE, OH, MY FRIEND, IS THE BLOOD 
 OF THE WORLD, AND THE WORLD IS 
 OUR MURDERER ; HOW CAN WE THEN 
 REFRAIN FROM DRINKING THE BLOOD 
 OF HIM WHO HAS SPILT OURS ? 
 
 

 I. XII 
 
 THERE CAME A VOICE AT DAWNING 
 ' nil: WINE-SHOP, < R\ IV . 
 VI HAUNTERS OF THE TAVERN-DIVAN, 
 ARISE, AND FILL THE CANNIKIN BEFORE 
 FATE < OMES TO 1 III. THE CUP OF 
 YOUR BEING." 
 
 ! DRINK THIS DIVINE 
 
 Nl.< I \K WHICH HA I'M NOT 
 STIRRED: l»KINK TO THE MEMORY <'F 
 nil. ENCHANTING IDOLS WHO ENSLAVE 
 THE HEART OF MAN. WINK IS THE 
 D OF I HI. GRAPE, MV BELO\ I D, 
 AND THE VINE SAYS TO II 1 1 I , "I>KINK 
 "1 II. SIN< I I ELW ! I 1 UND1 k 
 
 I'HV CON l K"l .." 
 
 IN nil )F II OWERS, DRINK 
 
 WIN! I Hi: COLOUR OF ROSES, DRINK 
 It) I HI'. PLAINTIVE NOTES OF mi: 
 FLUTE, WD ! HE Mil ODIOUS SOUND 
 
 'H I HI II \KI'. I FOR MY .PART DRINK 
 III! Kl -'I \ND Kl |l IK I . AND I I IS 
 
 \i \i ro mi:, ii THOU WI1 I 
 Ml 'I DRINK, w HAT IS I 11 \I D> ME? 
 . \ND l.\i STONES. 
 
LXIII 
 
 WHEN THE MEMORY OF MY OFFENCES 
 COMETH TO MY MIND, THE FIRE, 
 WHICH IN FORMER DAYS BURNT IN 
 MY HEART NOW COVERS MY FACE 
 WITH SHAME. HOWEVER, IT IS WELL 
 KNOWN THAT A GENEROUS MASTER 
 WILL PARDON THE SLAVE WHO RE- 
 PENTETH. 
 
 OH, MY SOUL, THOU AND I TO- 
 GETHER ARE LIKE UNTO A COMPASS. 
 WE FORM BUT ONE BODY, HAVING 
 TWO POINTS. TRULY, WE MOVE BUT 
 FROM THE ONE POINT, AND MAKE THE 
 ROUND OF THE CIRCLE ) BUT THE DAY 
 COMETH, AND IS NOT FAR OFF, WHEN 
 THE TWO POINTS MUST REUNITE. 
 
 AT THE FIRST, LIFE WAS GIVEN 
 UNTO ME WITHOUT MY CONSENT, 
 THEREFORE MY OWN EXISTENCE 
 FILLED ME WITH ASTONISHMENT. 
 FINALLY, WITH REGRET WE LAPSE 
 OUT OF THIS WORLD, UNDERSTANDING 
 NEITHER THE PURPOSE OF OUR COM- 
 ING, OUR STAY, NOR OUR DEPARTURE. 
 
LXIV 
 
 I AM A REBELLIOUS SLAVE I WHERE 
 IS HIV WILL? MY HEART IS DEFILED 
 WITH SINS: WHERE IS THY LIGHT? 
 WHERE I- THY CONTROL? IF THOU 
 will ONLY BESTOW PARADISE ON 
 ["HOSE WHO OBEY THY LAWS IT I- \ 
 l»l HI WHICH THOU PAYEST, AND 
 will W IS THY MERCY? 
 
 Bl I II. \ I. NoT THAI I PEAR THE 
 WORLD, <>R THAT THE THOUGHT OF 
 DEATH \M> THE DEPARTURE OK MY 
 i I! I - \\l Wl I II I ERROR. SINCE 
 DEATH I- \ I RUTH, WH \1 II WE I TO 
 FEAR I Rl IM II? All I M \l I FEAR IS, 
 III \1 MY LIFE H VS NO! I ! 1 N Will I 
 SP1 N I. 
 
 I wmi D SELL I HE I'l IDEM OF nil. 
 MIAN, Till CROWN »'l THE KIN 
 
 I W Ilii N OF Mil FLUTE 
 
 GIRL, ill US SEL1 nil iTKi.w. N i \. 
 
 1 111 GARM] N 1 "i -ilk, FOR A 
 
 WINE; Ml I - SELL THE 
 
 CHAPLET WHICH ALON1 CONTAINS \ 
 
 Mil II rUDE el in 
 
LXV 
 
 WHEN THE TREE OF MY EXISTENCE 
 IS UPROOTED, WHEN MY MEMBERS 
 ARE SCATTERED, LET THEM MAKE 
 PITCHERS OF MY DUST, AND LET 
 THEM FILL THE PITCHERS WITH WINE ; 
 THUS SHALL THE DUST BE QUICKENED 
 AGAIN. 
 
 OH THOU BEFORE WHOSE EYES SIN 
 IS OF NO MOMENT, SAY TO HIM WHO 
 HAS THE WISDOM TO ANNOUNCE 
 THIS GREAT TRUTH, THAT TO THE 
 MIND OF THE PHILOSOPHER IT IS THE 
 CROWN OF FOLLY TO MAKE THE 
 DIVINE PRESCIENCE THE SUPPORT OF 
 SIN. 
 
 O MY FRIEND, COME HITHER, LET 
 US FORGET TO-DAY AND TO-MORROW, 
 AND STEAL THIS ONE SHORT HOUR OF 
 LIFE. WHEN TO-MORROW WE SHALL 
 HAVE ABANDONED THIS OLD DWELLING- ^ 
 
 PLACE, WE SHALL BECOME THE CON- 
 TEMPORARIES OF ALL THOSE WHO 
 DEPARTED HENCE FOR THE LAST SEVEN 
 THOUSAND YEARS. 
 
 F 
 
:u.d has gained nothing 
 rn here below, and 
 
 RY AN 
 
 VRTURE I 
 HAVE NEVER HEARD WITH MY I 
 
 HAVE NEVER BEEN TOLD BY ANY- 
 OF MY COMING OR 
 
 ARE KNOWN 
 : ll.KNAI. WISDOM, WHO NUM- 
 III EVERY HAIR OF OUR 1 
 HATH FASHIONED ALL OUR MEM- 
 BY HYPOCRISY THOU I 
 
 MANKIND, BUT HOW WILT 
 [E ALL-KNOWN 
 
 WIN IH WINGS TO THE 
 
 D. WINE [S a MOLE 
 OF WISDOM. WE 
 i DRUNK OF II DURING THE 
 WHICH HAS ; : BE- 
 
 NOW 11: 
 ill DRINKING OF WINE HAS 
 
LXVI1 
 
 SEE THAT THOU ART NEVER LEFT 
 WITHOUT WINE, FOR IT IS WINE WHICH 
 FILLS THE HEART OF MAN WITH 
 WISDOM AND WITH KNOWLEDGE OF 
 RELIGION. IF THE DEVIL HAD TASTED 
 ONE DROP THEREOF, HE WOULD HAVE 
 ADORED ADAM, AND WOULD HAVE 
 BOWED HIMSELF DOWN BEFORE HIM 
 TWO THOUSAND TIMES. 
 
 ARISE, AND STRIKE THE EARTH WITH 
 THY FEET, WHILE WE ACCOMPANY THEE 
 WITH OUR HANDS. LET US DRINK IN 
 THE PRESENCE OF BEAUTIFUL WOMEN 
 WITH LANGUOROUS NARCISSUS EYES. 
 GLADNESS BEGINNETH NOT BUT WITH 
 THE TWENTIETH CUP, AND IT IS WON- 
 DERFULLY ROUNDED WHEN ONE HAS 
 COME TO THE SIXTIETH. 
 
 NEVER DESPAIR, FOR ALL THY SINS, 
 OF THE DIVINE MERCY OF THE MER- 
 CIFUL MASTER, FOR IF YOU WERE TO 
 DIE TO-DAY, DEAD DRUNK, TO-MORROW 
 HE WOULD PARDON YOUR CORRUPTED 
 BONES. 
 

 LXVIII 
 
 TAKE THE CUP IN YOUR HAND, AND 
 LIFT UP YOUR VOICE IN THE CHOIR 
 OF THE NIGHTINGALES, FOR IF IT 
 MIA' TO DRINK THE BLOOD 
 OF Till: VINT. WITH NO SWEET (.UN- 
 CORD OF HARMONIOUS SOUND, THE 
 ITSELF WOULD MAKE NO SOUND 
 l\ GURGLING FROM THE FL.V 
 
 I HAVE CLOSED MY HEART AGAINST 
 
 AND I AM THUS 
 -I I' FROM MY DEBT BOTH TO 
 IHOSE WHO ARE MIX. AND THOSE 
 WHO DESERVE NOT MINT NAME, BUT 
 I III RE EXISTETH ONLY ONE 
 FRIEND WIKi WILL HOLD ME BY THE 
 HAND, I AM WHAT I AM : TO HIM ALONE 
 DO 1 Kl NDER ACCOUNT. 
 
 i) WHEEL OF HEAVEN, THY REVOLV- 
 
 VSES ME, SET ME 
 
 I \M UNWORTHY 
 
 OF THY YOKE. IF THY PURPOSE AL- 
 
 HOl DS ! IHV FAVOURS 
 
 ["HE FOOLS IN THEIR FOLLY, 
 
 i \M NOTOV1 R- WISE NOR O VI k-I.l AKNEU. 
 
LXIX 
 
 GOD HATH PROMISED US WINE IN 
 PARADISE. THEREFORE, HOW CAN IT 
 BE DENIED TO US IN THIS WORLD? 
 AN ARAB, A PREY TO DRUNKENNESS, 
 ONE DAY SEVERED WITH HIS SWORD 
 THE LEGS OF A CERTAIN CAMEL. 
 IT IS FOR THIS CAUSE, THAT THE 
 PROPHET HAS DECLARED WINE FOR- 
 BIDDEN. 
 
 SINCE, OF ALL THY PAST DELIGHTS, 
 THERE REMAINETH TO THEE ONLY 
 THE MEMORY, SINCE THE ONLY FAITH- 
 FUL FRIEND REMAINING TO THEE IS 
 THE WINE-CUP, SINCE IN TRUTH IT IS 
 THY ONLY POSSESSION, REJOICE THERE- 
 FORE IN IT, AND LET NOT THE CUP 
 ESCAPE FROM THY HANDS. 
 
 IN THIS MAD WORLD OF MEDLEY, 
 MAKE HASTE TO PICK SOME FLOWERS. 
 SIT IN THE HIGH PLACES OF LAUGHTER, 
 AND PRESS THE CUP TO YOUR LIPS. 
 HEAVEN IS HEEDLESS ALIKE OF SIN 
 OR SERVICE, SO MAKE MERRY AFTER 
 YOUR HEART'S DESIRE. 
 

 LXX 
 
 MY LOVE HAS TOUCHED THE TOP- 
 MOST OF ITS FLAME. THE BEAUTY OF 
 HER WHO] IY HEART IN THRALL 
 
 MY HEART SPEAKS, 
 MY TON. a . MUTE, RE] 
 
 UTTERANCE TO MY THOUGHTS. HIGH 
 HEAVEN, WAS AUGHT EVER SEEN SO 
 STRANGE! I AM RACKED WITH THIRST, 
 \NI» VET A FRESH COOL STREAM FLOWS 
 ORE ME. 
 
 MAY Till - . TAVERN ALWAYS BE 
 THRONGED WITH REVELLERS, MAY 
 FIRE CONSUME THE SKIRTS OF THE 
 5AINTLY, MAY THEIR ROUES FALL IN 
 . THEIR BLUE GOWNS BE 
 TRAMPLED UNDER THE TOM 
 
 I AM MORE INDUSTRIOUS THAN 
 I HI r. 1 r THE 
 
 nk, I AM I : 
 IH\N I: 
 
 . \\!> I I III 
 
 I HE VIM'. BE H ST \M> PRONOUNCE 
 
 which OF US TWO is I HE 
 
 \RV. 
 
LXXI 
 
 ALAS ! HOW LONG THE TIME WILL 
 BE WHEN WE ARE NO LONGER IN 
 THIS WORLD, AND THE WORLD WILL 
 STILL EXIST. THERE WILL REMAIN 
 OF US NEITHER FAME, NOR TRACE. 
 THE WORLD WAS NOT IMPERFECT 
 BEFORE WE CAME INTO IT — IT WILL 
 BE IN NO WISE CHANGED WHEN WE 
 ARE DEPARTED HENCE. 
 
 HOW LONG WILL YOU REMAIN THE 
 DUPE OF THIS WORLD'S DELICATE DYES 
 AND ODOURS? WHEN WILL YOU CEASL 
 FROM VEXING ABOUT THE GOOD AND 
 THE BAD ? WERE YOU THE FOUNTAIN 
 OF YOUTH, WERE YOU THE VERY 
 WATER OF LIFE ITSELF, THAT SHOULD 
 NOT SAVE YOU FROM SINKING INTO 
 THE BOSOM OF THE EARTH. 
 
 OUR BEING MUST BE EFFACED FROM 
 THE BOOK OF LIFE, WE MUST EXPIRE 
 IN THE ARMS OF DEATH. OH, EN- 
 CHANTING CUP-BEARER, BRING ME THE 
 LIQUOR JOYFULLY, SINCE I MUST BE- 
 COME EARTH. 
 
 
DAY WHEN THK JUICE OF 
 
 -T TURN MY 
 
 , THIS WORLD HAS NOTHING TO 
 
 I THAT WHICH IS POISON TO 
 
 I!li: MISERY OF THIS 
 
 IS A POISON — WINE 
 
 1!> ONLY \NIIDOTE. TO ESCAPE 
 
 ROR OF THE 
 
 IN, I WILL TAKE THE ANTIDOTE, 
 
 [OLD THE I HT1 E HANDFUL OF 
 
 HOLD Mil; WORLD IN 
 
 IHI'.Ii . AND WHO IN THEIR 
 
 SIMP! E nil IV THINK THEMSELVES THE 
 
 I HE WISE. VEX NOT YOUR- 
 
 [R SNUG CONTENT 
 
 CALL ALL MEN HERETICS WHO 
 
 NO! OF A KINDRED LOLLY. 
 
 VBANDON I HYSE1 1 TO ENJOYW 
 
 LOW is wii HOU1 IN!'. THE 
 IN ["HE HLA\ INS 
 
 . \nd OF 
 HI< II THEY MAKE I 
 HIV BODY WILL HM.\ BUILD PALACES 
 
LXXIII 
 
 HOW LONG WILL THE UNRIGHTEOUS 
 DEEDS OF OTHERS COVER OUR FACE 
 WITH SHAME? HOW LONG SHALL WE 
 BE CONSUMED IN THE FURNACE OF 
 THIS VAIN WORLD ? ARISE — AND LIKE 
 A MAN CAST ASIDE THIS WORLD'S 
 SADNESS. TO-DAY AT LEAST IS A DAY 
 OF REJOICING — COME, LET US DRINK 
 ROSE-COLOURED WINE. 
 
 I WAGE A WARFARE WITHOUT END 
 AGAINST MY PASSIONS, BUT WHAT CAN 
 I DO? THE REMEMBRANCE OF MY 
 INIQUITIES IS LIKE A SORE BURDEN, 
 BUT WHAT CAN I DO ? I BELIEVE 
 TRULY, THAT IN THY MERCY THOU 
 WILT BLOT OUT MY SINS. BUT THE 
 KNOWLEDGE THAT MY DISHONOUR IS 
 NOT HID FROM THEE REMAINETH — 
 WHAT CAN I DO ? 
 
 THOSE WHO HAVE TROD THE WORLD 
 BENEATH THEIR FEET, WHO HAVE 
 WANDERED OVER THE WORLD IN THE 
 PURSUIT OF GAIN, HAVE NEVER 
 LEARNED THE LIVING TRUTH OF LIFE. 
 
Cf^AX LXXIV 
 
 THE DAY WHEN THE CELESTIAL 
 STEED OF GOLDEN STARS WAS SADDLED, 
 WHEN THE PROUD PLANETS AND THE 
 CONSTELLATIONS WERE CREATED — FROM 
 THAT SAME DAY THE DIVAN OF FATE 
 DECREED OUR LOT. HOW THEN CAN 
 WE BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE - 
 OURS IS THE POSITION THAT HAS 
 BEEN MADE FOR I 
 
 MY SOUL IS OFTEN MADE SORROWFUL 
 BY THE MOVEMENT OF THE WHEEL OF 
 THE SKIES. I STRUGGLE AGAINST MY 
 VILE NATURE. OH ! THAT I HAH WIS- 
 DOM ENOUGH to huh: myself FOR- 
 EVER FROM THIS WORLD, OR UNDER- 
 I'O LIVE THEREIN, WITHOU I' 
 ALLOWING IT TO POSSESS MY HEART ! 
 
 WOE'S ME FOR THE BEST THAT 
 SLIPS BETWEEN OUR FINGERS; WOE'S 
 l.I. HIE HEARTS FILM' DEATH 
 I IN BLOOD l WOE'S ME 
 THAT NONE RETURN FROM THE 
 HITHER WORLD WITH TALES OF THOSE 
 who HAVE DEPARTED ["HENCE. 
 
LXXV 
 
 THAT WHICH RENEWS OUR YOUTH 
 IS WINE : IT IS THE LIVING JUICE 
 OF THE VINE, AND THE COMPANY OF 
 THE FAIR. AND SINCE IT WAS BY 
 WATER THAT THIS WORLD OF NO- 
 THINGNESS WAS BROUGHT TO DES- 
 TRUCTION, ALL THAT IS LEFT FOR US 
 IS TO DESTROY OURSELVES WITH WINE, 
 AND TO PASS OUR LIFE IN DELICATE 
 DRUNKENNESS. 
 
 ALAS, THE SEASON OF MY YOUTH 
 DECAYS, THE KINDLY SPRING OF OUR 
 DELIGHTS GOES BY, AND THAT DE- 
 LIGHTFUL BIRD, WHOSE NAME IS 
 YOUTH, HAS FLOWN. IT CAME, I 
 KNOW NOT WHENCE, AND GOES, I 
 KNOW NOT WHITHER. 
 
 WHEN I AM DEAD, SMOOTH MY 
 TOMB DOWN TO THE LEVEL OF THE 
 EARTH WITHOUT DELAY, AND MAKE 
 ME IN THIS WISE AN EXAMPLE TO 
 MANKIND. THEN KNEAD THE ASHES 
 OF MY BODY WITH WINE, AND MAKE 
 THEREOF THE COVER OF A JAR. 
 

 LXXV1 
 
 BRING HITHER THE CAPTAIN RUBY 
 IN A CUP OF CRYSTAL, BRING HITHER 
 THE DESIRED AND BELOVED OF ALL 
 GENEROUS MEN. SINCE 1 HOC KNOW- 
 I HAT ALL THE DWELLERS ON 
 THE EARTH ARE BUT DUST, AND THAT 
 WHEN THE WIND PASSETH OVER THEM 
 THEY ARE NO MORE, BRING HITHER 
 THE WINE, 
 
 OH THOU, WHOM ALL CREATION 
 SEEKETH IN MADN >> DESPAIR, 
 
 Till. DERVISH AND THE RICH MAN 
 ALIKE UN!) NO WAY TO REACH UNTO 
 THEE. THY NAME IS IN HIE MOUTH 
 OF ALL MEN, BUT AIL ARE DEAP. 
 THOU ART PRESENT TO ALL EYES, 
 BUT ALL ARE BLIND. 
 
 HOW LONG WILL 
 vain COMPLAININGS AGAINST HIE 
 I HL EARTH? ARISE, AND 
 MAKE EVERY MOMENT INSTINCT Willi 
 fOY. WHILE I HE WORLD mil 
 MANY SMILING MEA] 
 
 ' A BRIMMING f UP. 
 
LXXVII 
 
 WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THE 
 FELLOWSHIP OF SOME CYPRESS-SLEN- 
 DER GIRL, MORE TENDER-TINTED THAN 
 THE EARLY ROSE, DO NOT HOLD ALOOF 
 FROM THE FLOWERS OF THE MEADOW, 
 DO NOT LET THE CUP FALL FROM 
 YOUR HAND BEFORE THE ANGEL OF 
 DEATH, LIKE UNTO THE WILD WIND 
 THAT SCATTERS ABROAD THE ROSE- 
 LEAYES, TEARS ASUNDER THE VEIL OF 
 THY EXISTENCE. 
 
 THAT HIGH AND OMINOUS WHEEL 
 WHOSE TRADE IT IS TO PLAY THE 
 TYRANT HAS NEVER SOLVED FOR ANY- 
 ONE THE KNOT OF ANY PERPLEXITY. 
 WHERE'ER IT SEES A BLEEDING HEART 
 IT SPEEDS TO GRIND UPON THE OPEN 
 WOUND. 
 
 THIS VAULT OF HEAVEN UNDER 
 WHICH WE MOVE IN A VAIN SHADOW, 
 MAY BE LIKENED UNTO A LANTERN J 
 THE SUN IS THE FOCUS. AND WE, LIKE 
 THE FIGURES, LIVE THERE IN AMAZE- 
 MENT. 
 
 
LXXV1I1 
 
 1 HIS MOCKING WORLD HOLDS NAUGHT 
 BUT SHADOWS AND PHANTASMS. HE IS 
 \ LUCKY WHO LOSES HIS WAY 
 IN THE CROWD THEREOF. REST, 
 
 FRIEND, DRINK THY WINE, OPEN THY 
 HEART TO MIRTH, AND FREE YOUR- 
 SELF THUS FROM ALL THESE SHADOWS 
 AND PHANTASMS. 
 
 DO NOT SUFFER VAIN THOUGHTS TO 
 
 R THE GATE OF YOUR MIND. 
 
 DRINK WHILE THE YEARS DRIVE BY, 
 
 THE CUP BE ALWAYS FULL TO 
 
 THE LIPS. PAY YOUR COURT TO THE 
 
 HTEH OF THE VINE, AND BE 
 
 . FOR IT [S BETTER TO ENJOY 
 
 [DD1 N DAUGHTER THAN 1 ill. 
 
 EITTED MOTHER. 
 
 NOT ONCE HAS THE WHEEL OF THE 
 HEAVENS BEEN FAVOURABLE TO ME. 
 
 ". r ll.W l' l l [S- 
 
 > TO A SW] I 1' VOK E, M \ ER FOR 
 
 DAY 11 A\ E 1 I A- I IDA 1 I I I 1 INC, 
 
 HAPPI1 IR I 11 \\ ! i:| EN 
 
 OVERWHELMED IN AN ABYSS OF WOE. 
 
LXXIX 
 
 OH, WHAT A MISFORTUNE THAT IT 
 IS THE IGNORANT OR INEXPE- 
 RIENCED WHO POSSESS THE BREAD 
 WELL BAKED — THE INCOMPLETE, WHO 
 POSSESS COMPLETE RICHES ! THE EYES 
 OF THE BEAUTIFUL GIRLS ARE THE 
 JOY OF THE HEART, AND IT IS MERE 
 KNAVES AND SLAVES WHO ARE THEIR 
 OWNERS. 
 
 O, KHAYYAM, ALTHOUGH INDEED 
 THE WHEEL OF HEAVEN, IN SETTING 
 ITS TENT, HAS CLOSED THE DOOR TO 
 DISCUSSIONS, NEVERTHELESS THE ETER- 
 NAL CUP-BEARER HAS FORMED IN THE 
 CUP OF CREATION A THOUSAND OTHER 
 KHAYYAMS, LIKE UNTO THEE. 
 
 THE DAY WHEN I SHALL NO LONGER 
 BE KNOWN TO MYSELF, AND WHEN 
 THEY SPEAK OF ME AS A TALE THA T 
 IS TOLD : THEN MY HEART'S DESIRE 
 IS THAT FROM MY ASHES MAY 
 BE FORMED A WINE JAR FOR THE 
 TAVERN. 
 

 '1 
 
 THOU HAST FASHIONED ME OF 
 
 WATER AND CLAY ; HOW THEN CAN I 
 
 R IT ? WHETHER I BE MADE OF 
 
 L OR OF SILK, IT IS THOU WHO 
 
 HAST WOVEN ; HOW THEN CAN I ALTER 
 
 IT ? THOU HAST PREDESTINED MY 
 
 *> GOOD AMI EVIL DEEDS — HOW CAN I 
 
 * ALTER II? 
 
 THOSE MIGHTY AND POMPOUS LORDS, 
 SO ORGULOUS IN THEIR ESTATES, ARE 
 SO DEVOURED BY CARE AND SORROW 
 THAI LIFE IS BECOME A P.ITTER BUR- 
 1IIIX. YET, MARVELLOUS TO NOTE, 
 THEY WILL NOT HAIL WITH THE 
 NAME OF MAN THOSE WHO Ak! 
 
 [HEY ARE, THE SLAVES OF THEIR 
 
 ■ >LD, \\T. HAVE 1 I ID. AND THE 
 
 IGHS FOR OUR GOING; FOR 
 
 OUT OF A HUNDRED 1 I ' 
 
 IS THRIDD1 1>. Al AS, 1 1 IS OWING TO 
 
 [I NOB VNC1 - IF MANKIND 1 HAT A 
 
 HUNDR1 D THOUSAN I 1 HOUGHTS 
 
LXXXI 
 
 WITH A BELOVED FRIEND FOR MY 
 COMPANION, THAT WHICH DELIGHTS 
 ME IS A CUP OF WINE. WHEN MY 
 HEART IS BRIMMED WITH GRIEF, 
 MY EYES FLOW A FOUNTAIN OF TEARS. 
 ALAS, SINCE THIS WRETCHED WORLD IS 
 FOR US OF SHORT DURATION, ALL THAT 
 IS LEFT FOR US IS TO PASS OUR LIFE 
 IN DRUNKENNESS. 
 
 AN EARTHLY LOVE CAN SELDOM IN- 
 SPIRE PERFECTION. IT IS LIKE A 
 HALF EXTINCT FIRE WHICH NO 
 LONGER GIVES FORTH HEAT. HE WHO 
 LOVETH IN TRUTH, SHOULD NOT KNOW 
 REST, OR FOOD, OR SLEEP, THROUGH 
 MONTHS, OR THROUGH YEARS, BY DAY. 
 OR BY NIGHT. 
 
 ONE CUP OF WINE IS WORTH A HUN- 
 DRED HEARTS, A HUNDRED FAITHS ; 
 ONE DROP OF WINE IS OF MORE 
 VALUE THAN THE EMPIRE OF KINGS ! 
 WHAT IS THERE IN TRUTH TO BE 
 NAMED BEFORE IT? ITS BITTERNESS 
 IS BEYOND ALL THE SWEETS OF LIFE. 
 G 
 
LXXXI1 
 
 IloW MANY MEN I'O I IJKHOLD 
 PLUNGED IN' THE SLEEP OF 
 KAMI UPON Nil. 1 \klll, HOW MANY 
 ALREADY BURIED IN ITS BOSOM ! 
 V, III N I CAS1 MY l.YI - OVER THIS 
 1: I OF NO! HINGN] SS, HOW MANY 
 -mis DO 1 SI l WHO HAVE NO] 1 ll 
 ARRIVED — HOW MANY WHO HAVE 
 ALREADY DEPAR1 
 
 [NG in \r ni\ ••!;.< \ is v< iuch- 
 
 -\l ED TO Ml, I HA\ I. NO FEAR FOR 
 MY INIQU1 in - ; SIN< I. NIOU POSSESS] - I 
 \l l GOODN1 SS, I Nl ED Nor BE 
 VNXIOUS lo PROVIDE MYSELF FOR THE 
 RNEY. Nil LEAVES OF Nil' 
 BOOK 11 w I NO N RRORS FOR ME, 
 SINC1 I HY < I 1 Ml NV\ II \> (.1.1 ARI D 
 MY i OUN rENANCE. 
 
 Yl ST) RDAY I cl 111 I D \l Nil BAZ \ \K 
 \ POTTER SMI I [NG W] 111 \1 I. HIS FORCE 
 1 HE i I \Y ill W VS KM VDING. Nil'. 
 I- \K ill SEEMED ["O i KN OU I TO HIM, 
 " 1 \l SO \\ VS SU< H IS 111. T i R] \i 
 ME 1 ill R] 1 ORE II SS II VRSHLY." 
 
LXXXIII 
 
 SINCE THOU OWNEST ONLY THAT 
 WHICH HATH BEEN VOUCHSAFED TO 
 THEE, LET NOT THY HEART BE GIVEN 
 OVER TO COVETOUSNESS. FIX NOT 
 THY AFFECTIONS ON THE THINGS OF 
 THIS WORLD, FOR AT THE END OF 
 THE PLAY THOU WILT HAVE TO 
 LEAVE ALL, AND CONVEY THYSELF 
 AWAY. 
 
 TO-DAY, THE WEATHER IS PLEASANT, 
 IT IS NEITHER HOT NOR COLD. THE 
 DEW WASHES THE DUST FROM THE 
 FACE OF THE ROSES, AND THE NIGHTIN- 
 GALE CRIETH TO THE YELLOW 
 FLOWERS, SAYING, " YE MUST DRINK 
 WINE." 
 
 MAY I ALWAYS HOLD IN MY HAND 
 A BRIMMING FLAGON ! MAY MY LOVE 
 NEVER WANE FOR THOSE FAIR GIRLS, 
 LIKE UNTO HOURIS. FOLK SAY, GOD 
 BIDS YOU RENOUNCE THESE JOYS, BUT 
 IF HE GAVE ME SUCH AN ORDER, I 
 SHOULD NOT OBEY IT. PERISH THE 
 THOUGHT ! 
 

 I. XXXIV 
 
 THE WHEEL OF THE HEAVENS "\"l Y 
 l\( REAS1 I II OUR WOES Bl VOND Ml.A- 
 :\ l l ll NOTHING TO US 
 HERE IIIAI SHE I'OES NOT AS SOON 
 SNATCH AWAY. OH, IF THOSE \YHO 
 HAVE NOT YET COME INTO THE WORLD 
 DID BUT KNOW THE MISERIES WHICH 
 AWAIT MUM, TRULY THEY v. 
 NEVER C< 
 
 \l THE Mi 'MINT WHEN MY SOUL 
 SH \l I BE Dl I [VERED FROM I'l \l II. 
 whin MY MEMBERS SHALL BE SCAT- 
 I ER1 D I ROM 1 HE I kl 1 OF MY I II E 
 I I K 1 DRV 11 VVES Bl I ORE I HE WIND, 
 O, I lil \. WITH w HAT JOY 1 SHA1 I. 
 •i| 01 rHIS WOR] D rHROUGH 
 \ SH \ I , ri l ORE MY OWN DUS1 IS 
 D I HROUGH IT' BY THE BUILDER. 
 
 II HOI D THE DAWN J ARISI . 
 Bl \kl.| I SS I \l\ VND FILL Wl III 
 RUDDY \\ IM I III CLEAR VESSEL, FOR 
 MAY SI IK HI REA1 I l R, AND SEEK 
 IN VAIN, I HIS l VIR HOUR WHICH rHIS 
 WOR] D OF SHADOWS I l NDS 1 
 
LXXXV 
 
 THOSE WHO BY THEIR LEARNING 
 ARE THE ELECT OF THE WORLD, WHO 
 BY THEIR INTELLECT CLIMB THE 
 HEIGHTS OF HEAVEN, THOSE WHO 
 SCALE THE FIRMAMENT IN THEIR 
 SEARCH AFTER THE THINGS OF DIVINE 
 WISDOM, LOSE THEIR WITS, SEIZED 
 WITH DIZZINESS AND ALL AMAZEMENT. 
 
 WHEN YOU DRINK, DRINK WITH A 
 WITTY FELLOWSHIP, DRINK WITH FAIR 
 WOMEN WITH SMILING LIPS AND 
 TULIP-TINTED CHEEKS. DRINK NOT 
 TOO DEEP, DO NOT BABBLE ABOUT IT. 
 DO NOT MAKE IT A CATCH WORD; 
 DRINK, BUT DRINK DISCREETLY, AND 
 IN SECRET. 
 
 LET NOT THE CONSTANT MAN FOR- 
 SWEAR THE JUICE OF THE VINE, FOR 
 WINE CONTAINS ALL THE VIRTUE OF 
 THE VERY WATER OF LIFE. IF ANY- 
 ONE WILL RENOUNCE HIS WINE DURING 
 THE MONTH OF RAMAZAN, LET HIM 
 AT LEAST ALSO RENOUNCE THE RECI- 
 TATION OF HIS PRAYERS. 
 
L 
 
 I. XXXVI 
 
 DO N"I FORSWEAR THE JUICE OF 
 Mil. VINE II VOU HAVE ANY STORE 
 I III kid . FOR MANY A Kill N I ING 
 SIGN Will. FOLLOW SUCH A SACRIFICE. 
 I HI. Rl IS1 S Mill' I 111 IK PETAJ S, THE 
 XK'.H riNG \l I S CAST THEIR 
 VBROAD UPON III! AIR: WOULD IT BE 
 WISE IN SU( II AN HOUR TO FORSWKAK 
 I ill. I LAGON? 
 
 rO-MORROW 1 SUM. I. HAVE I E \li I> 
 OVER 1 111 MOUN IAIN WHICH DIVIDE! II 
 I 5, \M> Ml \l I M 1/1 I III CUP IN MY 
 HAND Willi SURPASSING JOY. MY BE- 
 i OV1 I' I^ i.K \i [OUS, THE HOUR is 
 FAIR \N1> FAVOURING. IF I HASTEN 
 NO! I" Rl .'"li I IN THIS MOMI NT, 
 WHIN SHALL I KNOW ion- AND GLAD- 
 MI SS ? 
 
 THEY III I US Ol \ PARADISE, 
 PI nil ED WITH HOURIS, I I OWING Wl III 
 WIN! \NI> HONEY. IHIN MIST IT BE 
 I \w I M rO LOVl w INI AND WOM1 N 
 
 HERE, -iwi -Mil i- i in GOAL TO 
 w llli II OUR 1 AIM ENCl 1 1 XDS. 
 
LXXXVII 
 
 SO LONG AS THE FRIEND REFUSES 
 TO POUR FOR ME THE SOUL-INSPIRIXC, 
 WINE, SO LONG AS THE SKIES REFUSE 
 TO SHOWER A THOUSAND KISSES ON 
 MY FACE AND FEET, SO LONG WILL IT 
 BE IDLE, WHEN THE HOLY MONTH IS 
 AT HAND, TO BID ME GIVE MY FLAGON 
 THE GO-BY. HOW CAN I RENOUNCE 
 IT WHEN GOD HAS NOT SO ORDERED 
 ME? 
 
 THE VERY HILLS WOULD LEAP FOR 
 JOY DID YOU BUT WASH THEIR STEEPS 
 WITH WINE. ONLY A FOOL IS SCORN- 
 FUL OF THE FLAGON. YOU WHO BID 
 ME RENOUNCE THE JUICE OF THE 
 VINE, LEARN THAT WINE IS THE SOUL, 
 THE COMPLEMENT OF MAX. 
 
 IN THE WAYS OF THE SOUL THOU 
 MUST WALK WITH UNDERSTANDING. 
 ABOUT THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD 
 THOU MUST KEEP SILENCE. THOUGH 
 THOU HAST EARS, EYES, AND TONGUE, 
 THOU MUST BE AS IF THOU HADST 
 THEM NOT. 
 

 I. XXXVIII 
 
 DRINK YOUR WINK i\ THE FELLOW- 
 SHIP OF THOSE SLENDER BEINGS, THE 
 CRIMSON OF WHOSE CHEEKS DISTURBS 
 llll. HEART. FRIEND, WHEN YOU ARE 
 BITTEN BY 1 HI. SERPENT OF SORROW, 
 DRINK Mil \\ I ii" .1 r. FOR MY PART 
 I DRINK AND I BOAST THEREOF, MAY 
 I 1 PRO\ E Gl IOD I" ME. IF YOU WILL 
 NOT DRINK, WHAT WOULD YOU THAT 
 I SHOULD DO? CO,. FOOL, AND EAT 
 nil: EARTH. 
 
 HE WHO, IN THIS WORl D, POSS 
 il\ll A LOAF AND CAN SHELTER HIM- 
 SI I I IN \N\ M ST, HE WH( I IS 
 
 Nil i in R i in: m \>ri R, oi< si \\ l OF 
 
 \N\ M \\. I I 1 I. HIM HI- 1 i)| [S SM 1 I I 
 \NI> TRANQUIL, AND HE SHOULD LIVE 
 CONTEN1 [HEREIN. 
 
 SOM1 riMES THE DRAUGHT OF OUR 
 
 llll IS CL1 \l.. SOM1 1 IMES TURBID. 
 
 riMES oik ROB] S ART WOOl . 
 
 riMES OF -II K. Al 1 I II \l 1- OF 
 \<> MOMEN1 l" nil I \i [GHT1 M 1' 
 
 ; BUT IS IT NO MOMENT TO Ml ? 
 
THE GREATEST WISDOM CONSISTS IN 
 DRAWING THE DELIGHT OF OUR HEARTS 
 FROM THE WINE FLAGON J LETTING NOT 
 OUR THOUGHTS DWELL ON THE PRE- 
 SENT OR THE PAST ; AND FINALLY IN 
 RELEASING, IF BUT FOR A MOMENT, 
 FROM THE BONDS OF REASON, THIS 
 SOUL WHICH GROANS IN THIS PRISON- 
 HOUSE WHEREIN IT IS FOR A TIME 
 ENCLOSED. 
 
 IF YOU ARE INDEED MY FRIENDS, 
 SILENCE YOUR VAIN DISCOURSE, AND 
 SOFTEN MY SORROWS BY FILLING MY 
 CUP WITH WINE. WHEN I AM TURNED 
 TO DUST, MOULD OF MY DUST A BRICK, 
 AND PLACE THAT BRICK IN SOME GAP 
 IN THE WALLS OF A TAVERN. 
 
 NO MAN HAS PIERCED THE SECRETS 
 OF THE CAUSE. NO MAN HAS EVER 
 PASSED A STEP OUTSIDE HIMSELF. I 
 WATCH, AND I OBSERVE ONLY IMPER- 
 FECTION FROM THE PUPIL TO THE 
 MASTER, IMPERFECTION IN ALL THAT 
 IS BORN OF WOMAN. 
 
 
xc 
 
 FOLK TALK OF PARADISE WHERE 
 HOURIS DWELL, WHERE THE HEAVENLY 
 RIVER FLOWS, WHERE WINE AND 
 HONEY AND SUGAR ABOUND! BAH ! 
 111!. ME QUICK A CUP OF WINE AND 
 PUT IT IN MY HAM'. FOR A I'l 
 PLEASURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND 
 I UTURE JOYS. 
 
 FROM TIME TO TIME MY HEART 
 -I I MS CABINED IN ITS CAGE, IT IS A 
 DISGR ICE TO BE THUS Bl 1 MD1 
 WATER AND OK EARTH. I DREAMED 
 OF BREAKING DOWN [HIS PRISON- 
 HOUSE, BUT THIN MY FOOT WOULD 
 SLIP ON NIK STONE OF THE LAW OF 
 llll. KORAN. 
 
 I 111 Y II I I. US THAI' THE MOON OF 
 R \M V \\ l> ( I 0S1 AT II \ND. I'll \I 
 WE MUST FORSWEAR WINE. will. 
 AND GO 'I', 1 111 N I PROPOSE AT THE 
 OF 1 HI II \M TO DRINK so 
 Dl I I' III \l I SHALL BE DRUNK1 N D> 
 1 III \ l.KV I \n in 1 111 SACR] D 
 MONTH. 
 
XCI 
 
 THE POTTERS WHO WITHOUT CEASE 
 PLUNGE THEIR HANDS IN THE CLAY, 
 WHO GIVE ALL THEIR MIND, ALL THEIR 
 SKILL, TO FORM IT, HOW LONG WILL 
 THEY CONTINUE TO TRAMPLE IT 
 UNDER FOOT, TO SMITE IT WITH THEIR 
 HANDS? WHAT THEN ARE THEIR 
 THOUGHTS? DO THEY NOT CONSIDER 
 THAT IT IS THE MOULD OF MANKIND 
 THEY TREAT THUS ? 
 
 DRINK, THEN, DRINK OF THE 
 WINE WHICH GIVETH ETERNAL LIFE. 
 DRINK, FOR IT IS THE FOUNTAIN OF 
 LIFE AND OF YOUTH. IT BURNETH 
 AS A FLAME, BUT LIKE UNTO THE 
 WATER OF LIFE IT DISPELLETH SORROW 
 DRINK THEREFORE. 
 
 HAS THY EMPIRE GAINED IN GLORY 
 BY MY SERVICE, O LORD MY GOD ; HAS 
 THY GRANDEUR SUFFERED AUGHT BY 
 MY SINS ? FORGIVENESS, GOD, AND 
 PUNISH NOT, FOR I KNOW THAT YOU 
 PUNISH LATE AND PARDON EARLY. 
 

 XCII 
 
 THERE ARE THOSE WHO IN THE 
 MADNESS OF THEIR ARROGANCE ARE 
 FALLEN INTO THE DEPTHS OF PRIDE, 
 OTHERS AGAIN WHO ABANDON THEM- 
 SELVES T<> THE QUEST OK HOURIS 
 AND (I I 1 STIAL PAJ ACES. WHEN AT 
 I \S1 I UK VEIL [S DRAWN IT WILL BE 
 REVEALED 1 HAT ["HEY All HAVE FALLEN 
 FAR, FAR, FAR, FROM THEE. 
 
 AI \S, MY HEART CAN FIND NO 
 ( 0M1 I »B I, MY SOUL I- ON I HE POINT 
 "I 1-' VPING FROM MY UPS, WITH- 
 OUT HAVING ATTAINED ITS DESIRE 
 ALAS! MY LIFE HAS PASSED WITHOUT 
 KNOW LEDGE, AND nil I SSI NCE OF 
 THIS LOVE KIM AIM III UNKNOWN. 
 
 SEIZE THE SPARK! IN'". CUP IN THY 
 II VND, \- -'.on AS Mil' MM OW DAY- 
 BREAK APPEARETH. Ikl'IH IS SHARP, 
 
 I I II \- Bl l N SAID, IN' I HI MOU I H OF 
 M VNKIND, FOR I HI- CAUS1 . I I" MAY 
 
 II , 1 HAT « INI. IS \ 1 KV 1 RU III. 
 
XCIII 
 
 HOW LONG WILT THOU EXPEND THY 
 EXISTENCE ON VAIN SELF-LOVE, OR IN 
 SEARCHING FOR THE SOURCE OF 
 BEING AND OF NOT BEING? DRINK 
 WINE, THEN, FOR SINCE THY LIFE 
 MUST BE FOLLOWED BY DEATH, THOU 
 HADST BEST PASS IT IN SLEEP OR IN 
 DRUNKENNESS. 
 
 O, BELOVED, BEFORE CARE SEIZETH 
 THEE, BID THEM SERVE US WITH WINE 
 THE COLOUR OF ROSES. THOU ART NOT 
 MADE OF GOLD, O THOUGHTLESS FOOL, 
 THAT THOU SHOULDST HOPE TO BE 
 DUG UP AFTER THOU ART LAID IN 
 THE EARTH. 
 
 IT WOULD BE HARD FOR MY HAND, 
 FAMILIAR WITH THE FLAGON, TO 
 HANDLE THE KORAN, AND REST UPON 
 THE PULPIT. IT IS DIFFERENT WITH 
 YOU, YOU DUSTY DEVOTEE J AS FOR 
 ME, I AM A SODDEN SWILLER, AND I 
 DO NOT KNOW THAT FLAME CAN FIRE 
 FLUID. 
 
xciv 
 
 BE N<> I DESIROUS OF THE THINGS 
 OF THIS WORLD. IF YOU WOULD 
 LIVE IN HAPPINESS, BREAK IN SUNDER 
 Nil. BONDS WHICH HOLD YOU CAPTIVE 
 TO EARTHLY JOYS AND SORROWS. HE 
 CONTENT, FOR I HE HEAVENS MOVE IN" 
 THEIR ACCUSTOMED COURSE, AND YOUR 
 LIFE IS OF SHORT DURATION. 
 
 OH, MY FRIEND, WHER1 I ORE V] X 
 rHYSl I F WITH THE PROBLEM OF 
 EXISTENCE? WHEREFORE TROUBLE 
 M1Y HI \RT AND THY SOUL THUS 
 Wl I H IDLE QUI -I [ONING ? LIVE THY 
 I II l IN JOY AND GLADNESS, FOR 
 VFTER Al I , THY ( 0UNS1 I « VS M'l 
 ISKJ D IN Mil. ORDERING OF HUMAN 
 
 \l 1 AIRS. 
 
 IT IS SAID THAT 1 HI RE WH 1. BE 
 JUDGM1 M \l l 111 LAS! DAY, AND 
 111 \i I HE I'l LOVED IKI1 \n w II 1. BE 
 I NB VG1 D. 11 I I K<>M i in; i i ERNAL 
 
 GOODN1 SS, G( VLON1 ( \N PRO< III'. 
 
 FEAR HOT, I ill Ki i 0R1 . FOR l HOD 
 SH \l 1 FIND MERCY A I Nil LAST. 
 
xcv 
 
 DRINK' WINE, BEFORE THY NAME 
 HAS VANISHED FROM THE WORLD, FOR 
 WHEN THAT NECTAR FLOWETH INTO 
 THY HEART, CARE WILL DEPART 
 THEREFROM. UNBIND THE TRESSES OF 
 THE LOVED ONE'S HAIR BEFORE THE 
 SINEWS OF THY OWN BONES ARE 
 THEMSELVES UNBOUND. 
 
 BEHOLD THE DAWN ARISES. LET 
 US REJOICE IN THE PRESENT MOMENT 
 WITH A CUP OF CRIMSON WINE IN 
 OUR HAND. AS FOR HONOUR AND 
 FAME, LET THAT FRAGILE CRYSTAL BE 
 DASHED TO PIECES AGAINST THE 
 EARTH. 
 
 NO ONE HAS EVER DRAWN ASIDE 
 THE VEIL OF FATE. TO NO ONE 
 ARE THE HIDDEN THINGS OF THE 
 DIVINE WISDOM MADE KNOWN. FOR 
 SEVENTY-TWO YEARS I HAVE THOUGHT 
 THEREON, BY DAY AND NIGHT, 
 BUT I HAVE LEARNED NOTHING, 
 AND THE ENIGMA REMAINETH UN- 
 SOLVED. 
 
 
X'V, 
 
 THAT THOU DRINKEST NOT THY 
 
 WIM. IN THE COMPANY OK SOME 
 
 . \. RIOT( (US, H W ING M 1 I HER 
 
 WIT tfOR MANNERS. NOUGHT BUT 
 
 DISSENSIONS CAN COME OV IT. IN 
 
 THE NIGHT-TIME THOU WILT SUFFER 
 
 FROM HIS DRUNKENNESS, HIS CI VMOUR, 
 
 AND HIS FOLLY. ON THE MORROW 
 
 HIS PR VY] RS AND HIS I'l M l ENCE WILL 
 
 I il\ HEAD TO ACHE. 
 
 OH, WHEEL OF HEAVEN, VOU FILL 
 
 MV S< »UL w I I'll SADN1 SS, YOU Kl MD 
 MY GARB or JOY, YOU CHANGE 1111. 
 AIR I BREATHE INTO WATER, 1 1 1 1 . 
 WATER I DRINK IN lo EAR! 11. 
 
 HOU ART IN THE TAVERN, 
 111"! CANST ONL1 M \kl. I in' AB1 U- 
 
 I IONS WITH WINE. w HEN I UN NAME 
 
 II \l II ON< l I'l l N Bl FOU1 ED I HERE, 
 I HOU i VNST NOT AG \1N ( I I VNS1 I I. 
 BRING III l ill R l HE w IM I 111 Kit ORE, 
 SIN( E i in COY] KIN''. OF OUR MIAMI. 
 HAI II LI 1 \ rORN BEYOND REPAIR. 
 
XCVII 
 
 WHAT DWELLER ON THIS EARTH 
 HAS EVER FOLDED IN HIS EMBRACE A 
 FAIR ONE WITH ROSE-TINTED CHEEKS, 
 WHO HAS NOT FIRST RECEIVED SOME 
 THORN IN THE HEART FROM TIME? 
 BEHOLD THIS COMB, BEFORE IT CAN 
 BE SUFFERED TO TOUCH THE SCENTED 
 HAIR OF BEAUTY, IT HAS TO BE 
 HACKED INTO A RIDGE OF TEETH. 
 
 DRINK WINE, FOR THEREIN THOU 
 SHALT FIND FORGETFULNESS FOR ALL 
 THY ANXIETIES, AND IT WILL DELIVER 
 THEE FROM THY MEDITATIONS ON THE 
 PROBLEMS OF THE EARTH. RENOUNCE 
 NOT THIS ALCHEMY, FOR IF THOU 
 DRINKEST BUT ONE MEASURE THEREOF, 
 IT WILL SCATTER TO THE WINDS 
 THY ENDLESS CARES. 
 
 OPEN TO ME, OH GOD, THE GATE 
 OF THY GIFTS. GIVE ME TO EAT, 
 THAT I MAY OWE NOTHING TO THY 
 CREATURES, GIVE ME TO DRINK TILL 
 DRUNKENNESS DROWNS SORROW. 
 H 
 
:\ 
 
 WINK IS FORIUDDI N, II I- SAID, BUT 
 II is ONLY FORBIDDEN IN REGARD TO 
 HIM Wlln MAKES N" Ml VSURE OF 
 WHAT III. DRINKS, AND THE ONE WITH 
 WHOM UK DRINKS. ALL Till: I 
 DITIONS 0N< i III. 1. 1' IN OBSER\ ' 
 WILL NOT THE WISE MAN DRINK? 
 
 I HEY WHO DW1 II. WI 1 1I1N I III. 
 TOMBS HAVE BECOME DUST AM' 
 VSHES, \l l i RI ■ D TO THE FOUR 
 
 u INDS, AND DI\ ID! D FROM I Mil 
 OTH] R. A I \S ! WHA1 DRINK I- THIS 
 WITH WHICH MANKIND IS III I ID, AND 
 WHICH HOLDS HIM THUS INFATUATED 
 i N l ll I II!. D\Y OF I HI 1 \-l JUDG- 
 M I N I ' J 
 
 I'.l Wl I < I iME, SOI Ml "I M\ SI >UL, 
 
 CEL\ CAN 1 BELIEV1 I II \I 1 HOD 
 
 \R T HERE. DRINK, l OR GOD'S l 0\ l, 
 
 I FOR MINE, DRINK WINE III 1. 
 
 Ii'.'. I UN I'.l INT.. 
 
XCIX 
 
 THERE ARE THOSE WHO HAVE NEVER 
 PASSED THE NIGHT IN THE SEARCH 
 AFTER TRUTH, WHO HAVE NO THOUGHTS 
 BEYOND THEIR NARROW LIVES. THESE 
 THOU MAYEST BEHOLD CLOTHED IN THE 
 GARMENTS OF THE GREAT, AND DIS- 
 PARAGING THE WALKER IN THE PER- 
 FECT WAY. 
 
 THOU SHOULDST NOT PLANT THE 
 TREE OF BITTERNESS IN THY HEART, 
 BUT RATHER FLUTTER AT ALL TIMES 
 THE LEAVES OF THE BOOK OF JOY. 
 THOU SHOULDST DRINK THY WINE, 
 AND PURSUE THE DESIRE OF THY 
 HEART, FOR BEHOLD THE LENGTH OF 
 THY STAY ON THIS EARTH IS QUICKLY 
 MEASURED. 
 
 THOU SETTEST SNARES AROUND US 
 MANIFOLD, AND SAYEST, " DEATH TO 
 YE, IF YE ENTER THEREIN." THOU 
 LAYEST THE LURES THYSELF, AND 
 THEN GIVEST OVER THY VICTIM TO 
 DOOM. 
 
 
c 
 
 THY LIFE WHILE IT RE- 
 MAINETH TO THEE, FOR MANY OTIIKR 
 WAYFARERS WILL JOURNEY THROUGH 
 llll. Wnkin. THE SOUL CRIETH OUT 
 \I II K THE BODY HAS BEEN TORN 
 AWAY FROM IT, AND THE CROWN OF 
 I1IY HEAD WILL BE TRAMPLED UNDER 
 THE FEET OF POTTERS. 
 
 HAPPY IS THE HEART OF HIM WHO 
 HATH GONE IIIROUCH LIFE UNKNOWN. 
 WHOM Nil VESTMENT OF HYPOCRISY 
 II Al H NEVER CLOl HI I >. WHO LIKE UNTO 
 Mil: SAGE IS TRANSLATED INTO THE 
 SKIES, INST! \l> OF REJOICING LIKE AN 
 OWE AMONG THE RUINS OF THIS 
 WORLD. 
 
 I , I HOT ART I IK I. UNTO A 
 LOVELY FACE; ROSE, I HOU AK 1' I IKE 
 UNTO \ PR! ( [OUS RUBY. O, SHU I ING 
 FORTUNE, I \ I R\ SECOND YOU SE] M 
 STRANG! l" ME, YET YOU ARE I IKE 
 UNTO A I AMI! IAR I RIEND. , 
 
CI 
 
 THE DRUNKARD WHO IS RICH 
 BRINGETH HIMSELF TO DESTRUCTION, 
 HIS RIOTOUS DRUNKENNESS IS A SCAN- 
 DAL TO MANKIND. I WILL THEREFORE 
 PLACE THIS HASHISH IN MY CUP 
 OF WINE AND THUS I WILL STRANGLE 
 THE SERPENT OF MY GRIEF. 
 
 THE DRINKER ALONE CAN UNDER- 
 STAND THE LANGUAGE OF THE ROSE 
 AND OF THE VINE, AND NOT THE FAINT- 
 HEARTED, AND THE CHEAP OF WIT. 
 TO THOSE WHO HAVE NO KNOWLEDGE 
 OF HIDDEN THINGS, IGNORANCE IS TO 
 BE PARDONED, FOR THE DRUNKARD 
 ONLY IS CAPABLE OF TASTING THE 
 DELIGHTS WHICH ARE AN ACCOMPANI- 
 MENT THEREOF. 
 
 OPEN THE GATE, FOR ONLY THOU 
 CANST OPEN IT ; SHOW ME THE ROAD, 
 FOR ONLY THOU CANST SHOW IT. I 
 WILL REACH NO HAND TO THOSE WHO 
 WOULD FAIN UPLIFT ME, FOR THOU 
 ALONE ART ETERNAL. 
 
CI, 
 
 LULLED BY A VAIN HOPE, I SCAT- 
 M kl.n rO THE WINDS A PORTION OF 
 MY LIFE, AND THAT BEFORE I HAD 
 KNOWN IN' THIS WORLD A DAY OF 
 
 I N !<>\ Ml N I. Al \S ! I FEAR NOW THAT 
 
 FLEETING TIME WILL NOT ALLOW ME 
 
 EPAY MYSELF FOR THE DAYS 
 
 I II VI ARE LAST. 
 
 1 I I- I WHO AM THE CHIEF FREQUEN- 
 01 I III. I \\ 1 UN. II is I WHO WADE 
 KN1 I. DEEP IN REBELLION AGAINS1 
 1IIV COMMANDMENT. IT IS I WHO 
 Mil. WHOLE NIGHT THROUGH, SOAKED 
 IN WINE, HURL THE COMPLAINT OF 
 MY WOUNDED HEART AGAINST 1 111 
 EARS OF GOD. 
 
 WHEN I AM DRUNK, THE WHOLE WORl D 
 MIGH I' KiM i, LUKE \ BAL] [NTO \ 
 HOI 1, \Nh 1 SHOU1 l' NO! CARE MORI". 
 I'll \N FOB \ BAR] I Y-< ORN. YES* 
 I PAWNED MYSELF AT THE I W1.RN 
 I OR A STOUP OF WINE, " LO, WHAT 
 \N EXCELLENT GAG] !" SAYS l HE l AP- 
 
cm 
 
 FOR HOW MANY NIGHTS HAS SLEEP 
 FLED FROM OUR EYELIDS, BEFORE THE 
 CRUEL PARTING HAS TORN OUR HEARTS 
 ASUNDER ! ARISE, MY BELOVED, AND 
 LET US LIVE FOR AN INSTANT BEFORE , 
 THE BREATH OF DAWN BLOWS UPON 
 US. ALAS, FOR HOW LONG A TIME IT 
 WILL STILL BREATHE WHEN OUR 
 BREATH IS EXTINCT ! 
 
 TWO THINGS ARE THE BASE OF WIS- 
 DOM, THE PEARLS OF TRADITION : EAT 
 NOT OF ALL THAT IS EATEN, HOLD 
 ALOOF FROM ALL THAT IS EVIL. 
 
 HOW LONG WILT THOU CONDEMN 
 US, O FOOLISH DEVOTEE? WE ARE 
 THE FREQUENTERS OF THE TAVERN, 
 WE ARE GIVEN OVER TO DRUNKEN- 
 NESS WITHOUT CEASE. THOU ART 
 ENTIRELY ABSORBED IN THY CHAPLET, 
 IN THY HYPOCRISY, IN THY VILE 
 DEVICES. WE FOLLOW THE DESIRES 
 OF OUR HEARTS WITH THE WINE-CUP 
 FOREVER IN OUR HAND, AND OUR 
 LOVED ONE BESIDE US. 
 

 ( IV 
 
 THE STEADY MARCH OF STi 
 VND AUTUMNS SWEEP THE LEAVES 
 FROM Ol'R LIFE'S TREES. DRINK 
 
 WINE, FRIEND, FOR THE WISE HAVE 
 WISELY SAID, "LIFE'S CAR! - \ 
 POISON, AND WINE ITS RL-l AN I I- 
 
 THOr WHO HAST BURNED, WHO 
 BURNEST, WHO DESERVEST STILL TO 
 BURN, l I l DING THE FIRE OF HI. I I , 
 WHY DOST THOU CA] I D TO 
 
 PARDON OMAR? WHAT H \S GOD TO 
 DO WITH I nil? I l"\v DAREST THOU 
 All'l \i. TO HIS PITV ? 
 
 \UY THOU FULL OF HEAVIN 
 1 \kl THOU A MORS! I. OV HASHISH, 
 IS I VRGE AS A GR VIN OF BAR] 1 \ , 
 «'R DRINK BUT A SMALL MEASURE 
 "1 ROSE-COLOURED WIN] . I HOU ART 
 \ SAGE, I Kl'I.V ! THOU 
 i DRINK 1 HIS, I HOU TAKJ ST 
 NO! I II \l ! N>>l KING I- 1 I M [O 
 nu.i: i ■' i i.i i \ i P] BB1 l S- GO, and 
 
 I \l I Ml M 1 111 N. 
 
cv 
 
 NO LONGER, O REASON, WILL I 
 CONTINUE TO BE THY SLAVE ; WHERE- 
 FORE SHOULD I CARE IF IN THIS 
 WORLD I REMAIN FOR FIFTY YEARS, 
 OR BUT ONE DAY IS LEFT TO ME ? 
 COME, LET US DRINK WINE FROM THE 
 FLAGON BEFORE WE OURSELVES BE- 
 COME POTS IN THE SHOP OF THE 
 POTTER. 
 
 I MET A WISE MAN IN A DRUNKARD'S 
 HOUSE, AND ASKED HIM TIDINGS OF 
 THE ABSENT ONES. HE ANSWERED, 
 " DRINK YOUR WINE, FOR MANY LIKE 
 UNTO US HAVE GONE HENCE, AND 
 NOT RETURNED AGAIN.'" 
 
 I KNOW NOT IF HE WHO CREATED 
 ME BELONGS TO HAPPY PARADISE OR 
 TERRIBLE HELL, BUT I KNOW THAT 
 A CUP OF WINE, A FAIR PARAMOUR, 
 AND A LUTE ON THE BORDERS OF A 
 PLEASANT LAND, REJOICE MY HEART 
 IN THIS PRESENT HOUR, AND THAT 
 THOU LIVEST ON THE PROMISE OF A 
 FUTURE PARADISE. 
 
 I*- 
 
CVI 
 
 C C 
 
 IT IS DAWN, EVER WELCOME, BE- 
 LOVED, SING TOUR SONG, AND DRINK 
 YOUR WINE, FOR THE LONG ARRAY OF 
 MONTHS HAS OVERTHROWN A THOU- 
 SAND RINGS LIKE DJEMSHID AND KAI- 
 KHOSROU. 
 
 1 DRINK OK THE WINE, AND nil Y 
 WHO OPPOSE I I COME ABOl 
 
 i hi: rich r 11 \\i> and on i hi 
 
 TO PERSUADE ME TO RENOUNCE IT, 
 SAYING I HAT WINE IS I HI. 1 M 
 RELIGION. BUT, ["HEREFORE, BECAUSE 
 I 1KH. D MYSEJ I' AN ADVERSARY OF 
 THE FA] 111, I WISH BY Al LAH TO 
 DRINK Till Ul OF, 1 OR I I l> PERM] [TED 
 I" DRINK THE BLOOD OF ONE'S 
 I \i MY. 
 
 [F I Wl RE I Rl 1 I" USE MY WI1 I , 
 IF [ WER] FREE FROM CARES OF GOOD 
 AND 1 \ II l\ I Hi^ WORTH] l SS WOR1 D, 
 now u n i i\.. i v WOUJ I' I t ; : 
 NEVER TO H \\ I ( OME ill R] . M \ I R 
 rO HAV1 LIVED HERE, MA IK rO DE- 
 PART 111 \< 1 . 
 
CVII 
 
 HOW IS IT THAT GRAPES ARE SOUR 
 AT FIRST, AND AFTER, SWEET? HOW 
 IS IT THAT WINE IS BITTER? IF A 
 BIT OF WOOD IS FASHIONED WITH A 
 KNIFE INTO A VIOL, HOW IS IT THAT 
 THE SAME KNIFE CAN FASHION A 
 LUTE ? 
 
 FROM AFAR CAME ONE FOUL- 
 FAVOURED, CLAD ABOUT AS IN SMOKE 
 OF HELL, SEX-LESS, HORRIBLE. HE 
 BROKE OUR FLAGON, SPILLING THE 
 RED WINE, AND BOASTED THAT THE 
 DEED WAS GLORIOUS. 
 
 SINCE WE ABIDE IN THIS WORLD IN 
 NO FIXED HABITATION, IT TRULY 
 WOULD BE A FATAL ERROR TO ABSTAIN 
 FROM THE WINE-CUP AND THE CA- 
 RESSES OF OUR BELOVED ONES. OH, 
 MAN OF PEACE, HOW LONG WILT THOU 
 CONTINUE THY VAIN REASONING ON 
 THE CREATION AND ETERNITY OF 
 
 THIS WORLD? WHAT TO ME WILL BE 
 
 ITS ANTIQUITY OR NEWNESS WHEN I 
 NO LONGER ABIDE HEREIN? 
 
... CVIII 
 
 PLAGUE UPON HEART-BREAKING HY- 
 POCRISY, O CUP-BEARER ; UP, AND 
 HITHER WITH THE WINE, O CUP- 
 i:i \i:)'.R; TO BUY IT, SELL THE 
 PRAYER-CLOTH AND Till SACRED TUR- 
 BAN, FOR WINE IS THE END OF ALL 
 MY ARGUMEN 1. 
 
 O HEART, WHEN THOU SITTEST AT 
 THE FEET OF THY BELOVED, THOU 
 HAST LOST THYSELF TO FIND THYSELF. 
 WHEN THOU HAST QUAFFED THE WINE 
 OF NOTHINGNESS, THOU ART SET APART 
 FROM THOSE III \ I' ARE, AND [HOSE 
 THAT ARE NO MORE. 
 
 THE COMMANDMENTS 01 RELIGION 
 ONLY INSIST ON Fill. I (Jl FILLING 
 OF l HY OB] IGATION TO THE Dl I IV. 
 kl I US] NOT THY MORS] I. OF BREAD 
 TO ANOTHER, REFRAIN TBTV TONGUE 
 FROM SLANDER, AND MIK Nop TO 
 Kl NDER EVIL TO I HY M IGHBOUR. 
 il I HOU DO] ST rHIS, I MYSI I I PRO- 
 MISE Mill I 1 1 1 FUTURE LIFF. — BRING 
 mi HER nil: WINE I 
 
CIX 
 
 BESTIR THYSELF, SINCE THOU ART 
 COOPED BENEATH THIS INEXORABLE 
 VAULT, DRINK WINE, SINCE THOU ART 
 PERFORCE IN THIS LUCKLESS WORLD. 
 IF ANYTHING FROM FIRST TO LAST BE 
 BUT EARTH, AT LEAST BEAR THYSELF 
 AS IF THOU STILL DIDST WALK THE 
 EARTH, NOT AS IF THOU WERT AL- 
 READY LAID BENEATH IT. 
 
 O HEART, MY HEART YOU WILL 
 NEVER KNOW THE SECRET, YOU WILL 
 NEVER TOP THE WISDOM OF THE 
 WISE. MAKE FOR YOURSELF A HEAVEN 
 HERE WITH WINE, FOR WHO KNOWS IF 
 YOU WILL OR WILL NOT RELISH THE 
 HIGHER HEAVEN ? 
 
 CHOOSE IGNORANCE, IF YOU HAVE 
 WIT, THAT YOU MAY TAKE THE BOWL 
 OF WINE FROM THE HANDS OF THE 
 DRINKERS OF ETERNITY. BUT IF YOU 
 ARE IGNORANT, IGNORANCE IS NOT 
 FOR THEE. IT IS NOT GIVEN TO ALL 
 THE IGNORANT TO TASTE THE SWEETS 
 OF IGNORANCE. 
 
I CANNOT LIVE WITHOUT WINE, I 
 COULD NOT BEAR THE BODY'S BURDEN 
 BUT FOR THE JUICE OF THE VINE. 
 AM THE SLAVE OF THATSWEET MOMENT 
 WHIN THE CUP-BEARER OFFERS ME 
 M.l ANOTHER DRAUGHT, AND I AM 
 TOO DRUNK TO TAKE IT. 
 
 HOW LONG WILL THESE WRANG1 I ON 
 [HE FIVE AND FOUR, O CUP-BEARER ! 
 I I 1- AS II \kl> TO UNDERSTAND ONE 
 \s ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND, CUP 
 BEARER : WE ARE l'L I EARTH, SO 
 I III. LUTE, CUP-BEARER J WE 
 ARE BUT as SOFT AIR, BRING WU 
 CUP-BEARER ? 
 
 WERT THOU AS WISE AS ARISTOl l E, 
 u I R r THOU As POT] NT AS ROM \N 
 CAESAR, <>k MONARCH Ol CATHAY, 
 DRINK, DRINK, I SAN, IN 111! 
 OF I'll MSHID, FOR I III GRAY] 1-1 HE 
 END Ol ALL, Yl \. u ERT 1 HOU BAHRAM 
 HIMS1 I I ■', I Hi: rOMB is I HV I INAI. 
 ABOD1 . 
 
CXI 
 
 A SHEIKH SAID TO A HARLOT, 
 " THOU ART DRUNK J EACH MOMENT 
 THOU ART -CAUGHT IN SOMEONE'S 
 NETS." SHE ANSWERED UNTO HIM, 
 "O SHEIKH, I AM ALL THAT THOU 
 CALLEST THY SERVANT, BUT THOU, 
 ART THOU ALL THOU APPEAREST TO 
 BE?" 
 
 WE HAVE WINE, AND THE WELL- 
 BELOVED, AND THE MORNING, O CUP- 
 BEARER. NOT FROM US COMETH RE- 
 NUNCIATION, O CUP-BEARER. HOW 
 LONG WILT THOU TELL THE TALES OF 
 OLD, O CUP-BEARER? BRING ME 
 SWEETLY THE PEACE OF THE SOUL, 
 O CUP-BEARER. 
 
 IT IS MY PLEASURE TO DROWN MY 
 REASON IN WINE : OUR SECRET SES- 
 SIONS ARE CALLED FOR THE SERVICE 
 OF THE WINE-CUP : O HERMIT OF THE 
 HEART, DO NOT, IN YOUR PILGRIMAGE, 
 DENY YOURSELF THE CUP : BE LIKE 
 US, WHO ARE FIRE-WORSHIPPERS, AND 
 DELIGHT IN THE LIP OF THE LOVER. 
 
\L\ cxn 
 
 WE TAKE THE KORAN IN ONE HAND, 
 AND THE WINE-CUP IN THE OTHER, 
 AN! > BEHOLD WE ARK LURED NOW TO 
 1111. LAWFUL, NOW TO Till. 1M AW- 
 FUL Mil'. III'. IIU'S IT COMH- I ' 
 [HAT UNDERNEATH VON SPANG! ED 
 BOWL WE ARE NEITHER ALL FAITHFUL, 
 NOR ALL FAITHLESS. 
 
 DRINK WINK, FOR BEHOLD HOW THE 
 JUICE Mel- 1 I \l III THE S1IH.S OF THE 
 J \K. HOW nil i \ M I D I SAY THAT I 
 II \YK I'.Rnk! N 1 III -I \I S "1 ALL MY 
 VOWS? VET, I- 1 I NOT LI I I ER TO 
 BR] \K THE SI \l - OF A HUNDRED 
 OATHS, [HAN TO BREAK THE SIDES OF 
 A J \K OK WINE ? 
 
 1"> N( 'I SET Till'. 1 STIM \LK OF 
 LIFE ABOVE SIX I \ M URS ; I"> 
 N"l Ml \"iK FOOT ANYWHERE 
 \\ 1 I 11. )i i i.i [NG |\ rOXICATl 1>. SO 
 I ■ ING VS YOUR SKU1 I I- N( >l MADE 
 l\l" \ I \K, l"i NOT SET THE GOURD 
 i ROM Y< lUR SHOU1 DERS, NOR Mil CUP 
 FROM VOUR HAND. 
 
CXIII 
 
 ARISE, DASH DOWN THE CARES OF 
 FLEETING LIFE, BE MERRY IN THIS 
 MOMENTARY BEING. IF HEAVEN HAD 
 BEEN CONSTANT IN ITS GIFTS TO 
 OTHERS, REMEMBER THAT YOU 
 
 COULD NEVER HAVE TAKEN THEIR 
 TURN OF ENJOYMENT. 
 
 WHEN I GAZE, I SEEM TO SEE THE 
 GRASS, THE STREAMS OF PARADISE. 
 EARTH, FREED FROM WINTER'S HELL, 
 SEEMS TURNED TO HEAVEN. REST 
 WITH SOME FAIR FACE IN THIS FAIR 
 PLACE. 
 
 FOLLOW THE FOOTSTEPS OF THE 
 KALENDERS, ABIDE IN THE TAVERN, 
 THINK ONLY OF WINE, WOMEN, AND 
 SONG. WITH CUP AND CAN, O WELL- 
 BELOVED, DRINK AND CEASE TO BATTLE 
 OF VAIN THINGS. 
 
 I 
 
WE HAVE BROKEN ALL OUR VOWS, 
 a I HAVE CLOSED THE GATES OF 
 GOOD AND EVIL FAME j DO NOT BLAME 
 i - FOR BEING FOOLISH IN OUR LOLLY, 
 FOR WE ARE DRINK WITH THE WINK 
 
 REACH ME TULIP-TINTED WINE, 
 POUR THE PURE IU.OOD OF THE VINE 
 i ROM THE THROAT OF THE 1 1 
 I OR WHER] IN 1 HI SE DAYS SHA1 I. 1 
 i [ND \ 1 RIEND SAVE IN LHL 
 
 '.\ [NE-I 
 
 rHOSl m\i hwi GON] ii 
 
 . ( UP-B1 KRJ R, ARE I Al'1'1 D 
 in I ill. DUS1 OF PR] -BEARER : 
 
 DRINK 1 HI N I I1Y U !M . \M» HI AK 
 i ill I ki l II l l I I I ; I ill WORDS 
 i HEY WHISPER] D Wl KI BU I WIND. 
 
cxv 
 
 THOU HAST STAMPED US WITH A 
 STRANGE SEAL, THOU HAST MADE US 
 DO STRANGE DEEDS. HOW CAN I BE 
 BETTER THAN I AM, FOR SUCH AS I 
 AM, YOU DREW ME FROM THE VOID ? 
 
 BE WISE, O MY FAIR, AND LIGHTEN 
 THE LOAD OF THY LOVER, FOR ALL 
 THY GOODLY SHOW WILL NOT ENDURE, 
 LIKE ALL THE WORLD THY FEET WILL 
 GO DOWN TO THE DUST. 
 
 THOU WHO COMMANDEST THE QUICK 
 AND THE DEAD, THE WHEEL OF HEA- 
 VEN OBEYS THY HAND. WHAT IF I 
 AM EVIL, AM I NOT THY SLAVE ? 
 WHICH THEN IS THE GUILTY ONE ? 
 ART THOU NOT LORD OF ALL ? 
 
 To 
 

 CKV, 
 
 i SPRING OF 1 HE FOUR AND 
 FIVE, ART PUZZLED BY THE FOUR AND 
 FIVE? DRINK DEEP, FOR I HAVE TOLD 
 IHl.i: TIME ON TIME, THAT ONCE DE- 
 PARTED, THOU RETURNEST NO MORE. 
 
 . II10U ART HIDDEN, KNOWN OF 
 . NOW THOU ART DISPLAYED IN 
 ILL CREATED rHINGS. IT IS FOR THY 
 OWN DEI I'M l l HAT HUT PERI 01 
 1 HESl WOND1 RS, Bl ING Al 0N( I ITU. 
 SPORT AND Fill SP1 v I ATOR. 
 
 II VOV I INI> I AMI IN \ I. IWN YOV 
 \KI CONSIDER] ■> l \ II.. IF YOU I IV! 
 i\ \ V>i lk, YOU ARE I '"'Kl D .UPON 
 \- \ SI in mi k. Fill' r.l -I I HING I OR 
 \\\ MAN, WERE III A SAINT OR A 
 HI r, W( ill l> BE I" I i\ I , KNOWING 
 NO ONE, KN NO ONE. 
 
CXVII 
 
 IT IS BETTER TO LIGHTEN ONE SAD 
 SOUL, THAN TO PEOPLE A WORLD. IT 
 IS NOBLER TO ENSLAVE ONE FREE 
 MAN WITH CHARITY, THAN TO SET 
 FREE A THOUSAND SLAVES. 
 
 LO, THE MOMENT FOR THE MORNING 
 WINE, HEAR THE MUEZZIN, O CUP- 
 BEARER. HERE IS A WINE-HOUSE, 
 HERE IS WINE, WE ARE READY, O 
 CUP-BEARER. THIS IS NO TIME FOR 
 PRAYERS, CEASE BABBLING OF DEVOTION, 
 DRINK AND BE STILL, O CUP-BEARER. 
 
 IF I AM THE FRIEND OF WINE AND 
 DRUNKENNESS, WHY SHOULD I BE 
 BLAMED ? IF ALL UNLAWFUL DEEDS 
 PRODUCED INTOXICATION, THERE 
 
 WOULD BE LITTLE SOBER REASON 
 LEFT ON EARTH. 
 
•cux™ 
 
 IN THIS JUGGLING HOUSE OF LIFE, 
 FRIENDSHIP I- A VAIN THING; BE 
 WISE AND TRUST NONE. BEAR THY 
 PAINS, SEEK NO REMEDY, BE CHEER- 
 FU1 IN THY SORROWS, AND SEEK NOT 
 fO -l! \kl. I HEM WITH OTE0 
 
 O MY KING, HOW MANY A MAN 
 LIKE Ml. IN THE ROSE-BOWER, IN THE 
 FAIR FELLOWSHIP OF DANCERS AND 
 DRINKERS, REMAINS ALOOF, AN ON- 
 i 0OK1 R ? A GARDEN, A WINE-JAR, 
 \N1> \ LUTE ARE BETTER THAN PARA- 
 '■'. III! II- STREAMS AND HOURIS. 
 
 i - \\v a HERMIT IN \ D] 5ER l 
 PI u I . HE w VS Ni ITHER III kl I [C 
 NOR I RU] BJ l II \ I R, HE HAD NI I 1 HI R 
 RICH] S, NOR CR1 l D, nor < < ID, NOR 
 I Kl I II, NoR LAW, NOR KNOW! | 
 « HI R] I- nil. MAN i>l I IKE COURAGE 
 in fHIS WORLD OR ["HE OTHER WORLD? 
 
CX IX 
 
 WOULDST THOU HAVE THE WORLD 
 AT THY FEET, THEN STRENGTHEN THY 
 SOUL, AND BELIEVE WITH ME THAT 
 WISDOM LIES IN DRINKING WINE AND 
 DAFFING THE WORLD ASIDE. 
 
 IT IS WELL TO BE OF GOOD REPU- 
 TATION : IT IS ILL TO COMPLAIN OK 
 HEAVEN'S INJUSTICE. IT IS BETTER 
 TO BE DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF 
 THE VINE THAN SWOLLEN WITH SHAM 
 PIETY. 
 
 GIVE ME TO DRINK OF THAT FLOWER- 
 COLOURED WINE, O CUP-BEARER; 
 POUR, FOR MY SOUL IS LADEN WITH 
 SORROW, O CUP-BEARER J POUR, I SAY, 
 FOR IN SETTING ME FREE FROM 
 MYSELF, IT SETS ME FREE ALSO FROM 
 THE CARES OF THIS WORLD, O CUP- 
 BEARER. 
 
 v£4llFl 
 
cxx 
 
 GIVE ME DELIGHTFUL WINE, O CUP- 
 BEARER, THAT DIVINE JUICE WHICH, 
 I Ik). A CHAIN OF LINKED I 
 Hoi. |K I OOLS AND SAGES IN SW] 1.1 
 SERVITUDE. 
 
 THIS Will 1 I OF Iir.AYI \ SI ! KS MV 
 [ON AND THINE, IT PLOTS 
 VGAIN UL AND THINE. 
 
 5EA1 I HYSELF UPON Till: GR VSS, l OR 
 IN \ I II I IK WHILE I RESH GRASS 
 WILL SPRING FROM rHIS DUST OF 
 MINI. AND I'll INI . 
 
 v, E ARE AL1 . AI I. BIBBERS, 
 
 \M. WORSHIPPERS OF nil VINE, WE 
 
 M ! IN I ill I \\ ERN l 
 
 AND 1 \ 1 1 • 
 '. I iTi; IN ill LIGl 
 '. i \I 1 DRUNK. 
 
CXXI 
 
 LAST NIGHT IN THE TAVERN MY 
 FAMILIAR FRIEND HELD OUT THE CUP 
 AND BADE ME DRINK OF IF. " I WILL 
 NOT DRINK," I SAID, AND HE REPLIED, 
 "DRINK FOR MY LOVE'S SAKE." 
 
 YESTERDAY I SAT BY A STREAM 
 WITH A BEAUTIFUL GIRL AND A VES- 
 SEL OF WINE. BEFORE ME STOOD THE 
 SHELL WHOSE PEARL GAVE FORTH 
 SUCH LIGHT THAT THE COCK CREW, 
 BELIEVING IT WAS DAWN. 
 
 DO NOT HEED THE SPEECH OF 
 FRIVOLOUS WOMEN, BUT SEIZE THE 
 CUP OF CLEAR WINE FROM THE HANDS 
 OF THE COMELY. ALL WHO EVER 
 TROD THIS EARTH HAVE VANISHED 
 ONE BY ONE, AND WHO CAN SAY THAT 
 ONE HAS E'ER RETURNED? 
 
\ 
 
 CXXI1 
 
 WHEN MY SOUL AND THINK HAVE 
 FLITTED, THEY WILL PLACE A COUPLE 
 OF PRICKS UPON MY GRAVE AND THINE. 
 THEN TO MAKE BRICKS FOR OTHER 
 TOMBS THEY WILL SEND TO THE KILN 
 MY DUST AND THINE 
 
 THAT PALACE WHICH TOUCHED THE 
 HEAVENS, BEFORE WHOSE DOOR KINCS 
 BOWED THE HEAD, WE SAW THE RING- 
 DOVE ON ITS BATTLEMENTS, RESTING 
 AND CRYING, "COO, COO, COO, COO ! " 
 
 TO DRINK AND DELIGHT IN FAIR 
 
 I \( 1 - IS W ISER THAN TO AFFECT A 
 
 HYPOCRITICAL FAITH. IF ALL I III. 
 
 M> Ml I HE JOYOUS TOP! RS, 
 
 '.'. ILL WAN I TO 
 GO TO PARADISl . 
 
CXXIII 
 
 WHAT IS THE GOOD OF OUR EN- 
 TRANCE TO, OUR EXIT FROM, THIS 
 WORLD? WHAT HAS BECOME OF ALL 
 OUR HOPES? WHERE IS THE BREATH 
 OF ALL THE WISE AND GOOD WHO 
 HAVE BEEN TURNED TO DUST? 
 
 WE DRINK WINE OLD AND NEW, 
 WE WOULD SELL THE WORLD FOR A 
 BRACE OF BARLEYCORNS. DO YOU 
 KNOW WHERE YOU GO AFTER DEATH? 
 GIVE ME SOME WINE, AND GO WHERE 
 YOU PLEASE. 
 
 FLEE FROM THE LESSONS OF LEARN- 
 ING AND PIETY, TURN TO THE TRESSES 
 ROUND THE LOVELY FACE, SPILL THE 
 BLOOD OF THE VINE IN YOUR CUP 
 BEFORE TIME SPILLS THY BLOOD ON 
 THE EARTH. 
 

 CXXIV 
 
 C u X v \y 
 
 THE STRONG WINE OF OURSELVES 
 HAS EXALTED USWITHJOYj WE THAT 
 LOWLY, HOI D OUR HEADS HIGH ; 
 MOW WE ARE FREE FROM THE BODY'S 
 DOMINION, WE HAVE RETURNED TO 
 EARTH FROM WHENCE WE ROSE. 
 
 \ FIG FOR M PRAYERS, 
 
 . HIE THEE TO THE TAVERN 
 
 AND GET DRUNK, EVEN IF THOU HAST 
 iR I 1. DRINK, MY KHAYYAM, 
 \ 111 A I I AR1 II OF THINE 
 
 WILL BE FASHIONED INTO CUPS AND 
 
 Bi >u I S AND JARS. 
 
 S<yi • R CAN I Ml \K1 
 
 \ l BUV CON I i N I. l ONG, 
 
 SERVED IN nil SCHOOL 
 
 OW, \M> STILL AM MASTER 
 
 I HI- WORLD NOR rm: 
 
 M XT. 
 
cxxv 
 
 TO YOU THIS EARTHLY CUP IS BIG 
 WITH A SOUL, LIKE TO A JASMIN 
 BEARING BLOSSOMS OF THE JUDAS 
 TREE. NAY, THE FAIR CLEARNESS 
 OF THE WINE DECEIVES ME, IT IS 
 CLEAR WATER, BIG WITH LIQUID FIRE. 
 
 THIS WORLD OF DUST FROM CORNER 
 TO CORNER, NOTWITHSTANDING THE 
 STUDY OF THE WISE-EYED, WILL SEE 
 NO BETTER PRODUCTION OF THE 
 FAITHLESS EARTH THAN CLEAR WINE 
 AND LOVELY BEINGS. 
 
 HEARKEN UNTO ME, THOU THAT 
 HAST NOT YET SEEN THY FRIENDS 
 GROW OLD. VEX NOT THYSELF ABOUT 
 THE WHEEL OF HEAVEN, CONTENT 
 THEE WITH WHAT THOU HAST, AND 
 PLACIDLY BEHOLD LIFE'S JUGGLES 
 WITH THE DESTINIES OF MEN. 
 
CXV1 
 
 BE GENIAL TO THE GENIAL REVEL- 
 . FOLLOW, MV FRIEND, THE WIS- 
 DOM OF KHAYYAM. AWAY WITH 
 PRAYERS, AWAY WITH LASTS; DRINK 
 DEEP AND BE KINDLY. 
 
 ARE YOU NOT ASHAMED, O MULLAH, 
 rHUS TO [GNOPJ ALL THE ORDINANCES 
 AND AI I. I III. PROHIBITIONS? EVEN 
 II TOU HEAPED UP AI I. I Hi: TREASURES 
 "I Mil EARTH, WHAT CAN YOU DO 
 \\ II II I HIM A I LAST, SAY! I EAVE 
 I III M TO SOMEONl ELSE? 
 
 DO NO! CA1 L D> MIND THE DAY 
 WHICH H \s I ASS1 D I kom \<u ; DO 
 N"i I \M\ NT Lok UNBORN rO-MORROW, 
 I". NOT II IIP ON l 111 COMING AND 
 I HE PAS! VWAY, I \ki I ill FAIR HOUR, 
 \M> DO NOT CAS1 TOUR LIF1 K) THE 
 WIND. 
 
CXXVII 
 
 IF I, LIKE GOD, WERE MASTER OF 
 THE HEAVENS, I WOULD BLOT THEM Of C 
 
 FROM THE WORLD, AND FASHION NEW 
 SKIES BENEATH WHICH FREE MAN 
 MIGHT GAIN HIS HEART'S DESIRE. 
 
 EVERY DAY AT DAWN, I WILL HASTE 
 TO THE WINE-HOUSE WITH THE 
 SUBTLE KALENDARS. O, THOU THAT 
 HAST THE KEY TO HIDDEN SECRETS, 
 GIVE ME FAITH IF THOU WOULDST 
 HAVE ME PRAYERFUL. 
 
 THANKS TO YOU, MIRROR-LIKE DISC 
 OF HEAVEN, THANKS TO THE FAVOURS 
 OF THIS FLEETING TIME WHICH FALL 
 BUT TO THE BASEST, MY CHEEKS, 
 HOLLOW AS CUPS, ARE BRIMMED WITH 
 TEARS, AND MY HEART, LIKE A JAR, 
 IS FULL OF BLOOD. 
 
CXXVIII 
 
 \ BULL IN HEA 
 
 AY IN NAMED 
 
 PARWIN, THERE I [ER BULL 
 
 THAI BEARS THE EARTH; OPEN THK 
 
 K.NOWL1 DGE AND BEHOLD 
 
 1 HIS 
 
 BUL1 S. 
 
 I I >, LIGHT, AND WINE, AND PL! Nil I'M . 
 P-BEARER : H>, THE BEAUTY LOV] 
 I li \.\ THE CAPTAIN-JEWEL, O CUP- 
 ER j I U.K. NOT OF EARTH UNTO 
 BURNING HEART, CAST II 
 TO I Hi. WIND ; BRING DRINK, O CUP- 
 l R. 
 
 V AIM \ VOU R \\i; OF RUB\ I IN IT.I> 
 
 VAINLY YOU WHISPER OF Mil 
 
 • I WINE, \N1> Mil 
 
 I I ' l I AND I'll CIMER. 
 
 . Ml\l ill. I YO\ 
 PHI 111^ "I EARTH, 
 I \I-I 1 N( 1 I- V \IN. 
 
CXXIX 
 
 ALL THAT THOU SAYEST OF ME IS 
 STEEPED IN HATE, THOU CALLEST ME 
 UNBELIEVER, ATHEIST : I AM WHAT I 
 AM, AND MAKE A VOUCH OF IT, BUT 
 IS IT JUST FOR THEE TO RAIL AT ME ? 
 
 I CAN RENOUNCE ALL, BUT WINE — 
 NEVER. I CAN CONSOLE MYSELF FOR 
 
 ALL ELSE, BUT FOR WINE NEVER. IS IT 
 
 POSSIBLE FOR ME TO BECOME A GOOD 
 MUSSULMAN, AND TO GIVE UP OLD 
 WIXE? NEVER. 
 
 CLEAR COMELY WINE, I FAIN WOULD 
 DRINK SO DEEP OF THY DIVINITY 
 THAT THOSE BEHOLDING ME FROM 
 AFAR SHOULD BLEND MY BEING WITH 
 THINE AND SAY, "O LORD WINE, 
 WHENCE COMEST THOU ? " 
 K 
 
BEFORE YOU DRAIN THE CUP OF 
 DEA1 H, Bl ! ORE I HI WHEEL OF TIME 
 HAS HURLED YOU BACK. GET OOODS 
 AND GEAR WHILE YOU ARE HI RE, 
 
 FOR IN THE LOWER LAND, NO Wil- 
 li IS III) 1 MI'IY HAND. 
 
 Dl VREST, WHILE WE TREAD [HIS 
 
 I \KI H, I II 1 1 HI JAR AND DRINK ITS 
 WINE ER1 1111. POTTER TURNS TO 
 SHAPE ' 1 ROM 1 HY DUST \M> MINI . 
 OTHER JARS FOR OTHER LIPS, FIL1 M\ 
 
 t. UP \M> 1 MIMA 1 HIM . 
 
 I UN i IT is BRIMMED Wl 1 II HOI 1 I N 
 RUBI1 S, CUP-B1 ARER : 1 I I I> MY SOUL 
 Wl III I Hi II \-lll S 01 I II \1 II AMING 
 STONE, < UP-B1 \Ki K. GIVE PO M\ 
 HANDS IH\1 HOLY BOWL, O CUP- 
 Bl \KI K. I 11 \l I MIGH I I I ND NI w 
 Bl IN'. It) M\ I IT BE \l: 
 
CXXXI 
 
 WHILE STILL YOU BOAST OF BONES, 
 AND VEINS, AND SINEWS, ABIDE IN THE 
 CIRCLE OF YOUR DESTINY. YIELD NO- 
 THING TO YOUR ENEMY, WERE HE 
 RUSTEM, SON OF ZAL \ BE UNDER NO 
 BOND OF OBLIGATION TO YOUR FRIEND, 
 WERE HE HATIM TAI. 
 
 DO YOU DESIRE A HAPPY LIFE, DO 
 YOU DESIRE A HEART DEVOID OF 
 CARE, THEN DRINK, DRINK, DRINK 
 WITH EVERY PASSING MINUTE, AND 
 FROM EACH DRAUGHT FIND NEW 
 DELIGHT IN LIFE. 
 
 1 HAVE SWEPT THE THRESHOLD 
 OF THE TAVERN WITH MY HAIR, 1 
 HAVE GIVEN THE GOOD-BYE TO 
 THOUGHTS OF GOOD AND ILL, OF THIS 
 WORLD AND THE OTHER. WHEN I AM 
 DRUNK, THEY MIGHT BOTH ROLL 
 INTO A DITCH, WITHOUT MY HEEDING 
 THEM MORE THAN TWO BARLEY-CORNS. 
 
CXXXI, 
 
 I PASSED INTO THE POTTER'S HOUSE 
 OF CLAY, AND SAW THE CRAFTSMAN 
 AT HIS WHEEL, TURNING OUT 
 POTS AND JARS FASHIONED FROM THE 
 HEADS OF KINGS, AND THE FEET OF 
 P.EGGARS. 
 
 SINCE THOU KNOWEST THE SEC 
 
 <> YOUTH, WHY SO RACKED WITH 
 
 DESPAIRING DOUBTS? THOUGH THE 
 
 WHEEL OF LIFE DOES NOT TURN D> 
 
 lliv P] I WRE, STILL BE MERRY IN 
 
 Mils HOUR, WHILE STILL THOU 
 DRAWEST BREATH. 
 
 I \-l 1 \ 1 I BROKE &GAINS1 \ - 
 \N I \K I HI N i UP, DRUNK IN" I IIK 
 DOING "I I in- i ""l [SH Dl ED. ME- 
 l HOUGH i I HE CUP PRO! IM l D IN TO 
 
 Ml " I w \- l IKE l HI l , l llor w III 
 Bl l IKE l>> ME." 
 
CXXXIII 
 
 BEAR GREETING FROM ME TO KHAY- 
 YAM, AND THEN SAY, " OH, INEXPE- 
 RIENCED KHAYYAM, WHEN THEN HAVE 
 I SAID THAT WINE IS UNLAWFUL ? TO 
 THE FOOLISH IT IS UNLAWFUL, BUT 
 TO THE WISE IT IS LAWFUL." 
 
 STILL TO ME MY BREATH, THANKS 
 TO THE CUP-BEARER, REMAINS, BUT IN 
 THE FELLOWSHIP OF CREATED THINGS, 
 DISCONTENT REMAINS. OF YESTERE'EN'S 
 WINE, ONLY A FLAGON REMAINS, BUT 
 I KNOW NOT HOW MUCH OF LIFE 
 YET REMAINS. 
 
 WHEN THE HAND POSSESSES A LOAF OF 
 WHEATEN BREAD, TWO MEASURES OF 
 WINE, AND A PIECE OF FLESH, WHEN . 
 SEATED WITH TULIP-CHEEKS IN SOME 
 LONELY SPOT, BEHOLD SUCH JOY AS IS 
 NOT GIVEN TO ALL SULTANS. 
 
BE NOT ROUGH WITH THE POT- 
 COMPANIONS, BE NO! GRUFF WITH 
 I m: WISEACRES, BUT DRINK YOUR 
 WINE, I OR WHETHER YOU DRINK 
 WINE OR NO, IF YOU ARE SEARED 
 WITH BELL-FIRE, YOU SHALL NOT 
 HOP! I" PASS INTO PARADISE. 
 
 IN 1111 ASSEMBLAGE OF LOVERS Wl 
 Ml. ARE SI ITED, FROM I HE LABOUR 
 <>l DAYS WE HAVE A! I I SCAPED, \\ E 
 HAVE I Ml'l II !> THE til' or 1 HI. WINK 
 "I OUR Dl SIRE, WE ARE All. 1KI.I 
 \\'D ["RANQUIL AND INTOXICATED. 
 
 I HOD HAS! BRORI N MY WINE-JUG, 
 i> I ORD, THOU HAST CI OS! I' AG UNS1 
 
 mi I 111. DOOR OF Dl l K. H I, <> I ORD, 
 
 I HOU HAS! SPI1 I UPON l HE 1 ARTH 
 
 I I EAR WINE : EAR! 11 BE IN MY 
 
 H l M ESS l nor aki DRUNK, 
 I ■ >K 1 >. 
 
cxxxv 
 
 A MOUTHFUL OF WINE IS BETTER 
 THAN EMPIRE. ABJURE ALL SAVE 
 WINE. ONE CUP OF WINE IS BETTER 
 THAN THE KINGDOM OF FERIDOUN. 
 THE TILE WHICH COVERS THE MOUTH 
 OF THE WINE-JAR IS MORE PRECIOUS 
 THAN THE CROWN OF KAI-KHOSROU. 
 
 LO, THE SEASON OF ROSES IS AT 
 HAND, AND THEN IT DELIGHTS ME TO 
 DEFY THE LAW OF ALKORAN WITH 
 BUDDING GIRLS OF TULIP CHEEKS ; FOR 
 A MEASURE OF FIVE DAYS MY CUPS 
 SHALL CONVERT THE GREEN GRASS 
 INTO BEDS OF TULIPS. 
 
 BEAR GREETING FROM ME TO MUS- 
 TAPHA, AND THEN WITH ALL RESPECT 
 ENQUIRE THUS, " WHY, O LORD ALL- 
 WISE, DOES ALKORAN MAKE THE 
 SOUR SALTED CURDS AND WATER 
 LAWFUL, AND PURE WINE UNLAW- 
 FUL ? " 
 
s . CXXXV1 
 
 O THOU THAT TURNEST DAY AND 
 NH. Ill TO LUST AFTER THE WORLD, 
 DOST THOU NOT THINK UPON THE 
 HEAVY DAY? LOOK TO THYSELF AND 
 TO THY LATEST BREATH, AND TO THE 
 END I HAT THOU MUSI SHARE WITH 
 OTH1 
 
 W|. MADE III!. MOUTH OF A JAR 
 OUR PLACE OF PRAYER, THE RUBY 
 
 u IM \l \i>! US -i I M TRULY MEN ; 1 1 
 I- BETTER TO BE IN I HI. SI REET OF 
 I 111. I.WI.KN, i n \\ h> ii AVE I II I. 
 TO WITHER IN THE MOSQUE 
 
 MAKE IHI CONDITIONS of I his 
 WOR] l> l \-\ IN rO M\ HI \K I, AND 
 M \KI. MY I vi! \< riONS S] I Ki l FROM 
 CRI \ i ION. GI\ i. Mi: TO-DAY MY 
 il I IS1 R] , \NI> rO-MORROW INI I HI 
 ON Ml wii VTEVER 1 HY LIBERA! I I \ 
 IS Mill. 
 
 
CXXXVII 
 
 NOW THAT THE BROWN BIRD TELLS 
 HIS TALE, HIS TALE, THINK OF RED 
 WINE IN THE HANDS OF TOPERS, TOPERS. 
 ARISE, APPROACH, FOR THE ROSE EX- 
 PANDS IN GLADNESS, FOR TWO OR 
 THREE DAYS THY PAINS AVENGE, 
 AVENGE. 
 
 WE ARE THE KEYS OF THE SCHEME 
 OF EXISTENCE, WE TO WISE EYES ARE 
 THE VERY ESSENCE OF DIVINITY. IS 
 NOT THE HOOP OF THE WORLD LIKE 
 UNTO A RING, AND ARE NOT WE 
 THE WROUGHT GEMS THEREOF? 
 
 IF I FEED IN FAMINE-HUNTED RA- 
 MAZAN, IT IS NOT THROUGH FORGET- 
 FULNESS, BUT BECAUSE THE CLINGING 
 FASTS HAVE CHANGED MY DAYS TO 
 NIGHTS, AND DELUDED ME INTO BE- 
 LIEVING THAT I ATE THE MORNING 
 MEAL. 
 
/. , CXXXVII1 
 
 W llll I I SEARCHED I HE PAGES 01 
 III! BOOK OF LOVE, A WISE MAN- 
 MI I 1 l> UP HI.- V IK i AND SAID, 
 "HAPPY IS HI. WHO HOLDS IX HIS 
 \ GIRL MORE LOVELY I HAN 
 llll. MOON, AND DREAMS OF A HIGHT- 
 riME I ONCER THAN A YEAR." 
 
 II THOU CANS1 l NDERSTAND I HE 
 
 II OF THIS WHEEL, THOU MUSI 
 
 PERCEIVE rWO KINKS OK MEN, lllo-l 
 
 KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL, AND rHOSl 
 
 I II \1 KNOW Nl ITHER 1HI..MM LVES N 
 tUGHI 1 I -I 
 
 I I I KII ND, All I 'I I R \NoIll IN ITI\ 
 DAY, NOR GRIEVE FOR 1 I I I UNO ll.MI. 
 IN \ UN, Will N I HI. O \Ki: ol I I! I [S 
 . II MATTERS LITTLE ^ HAT 1 HOU 
 I! \-l DON! . u II \l I HOU HAS! >A!I>. 
 \M» IN whai WAY I HOU II \-l II I N 
 -I UNI I'. 
 
CXXXIX 
 
 WHENEVER ON THIS GREEN EARTH 
 WE ARE AFFECTED FA' JOY, LIKE 
 UNTO THE GREEN STEED OF THE SKY, 
 THEN WITH GREEN YOUTH I EAT 
 GREEN HASHISH ON THE GREEN SWARD 
 UNTIL I LIE BELOW THE GREEN OF. 
 THE EARTH. 
 
 O THOU, THE QUINTESSENCE OF THE 
 SUM OF EXISTENCE, CEASE A MOMENT 
 TO THINK UPON EVIL GAIN, TAKE ONE 
 CUP OF WINE FROM THE ETERNAL 
 SAKI, AND SET THYSELF FREE FROM 
 THE CARES OF BOTH WORLDS. 
 
 ARISE, ARISE FROM THY PLACE OF 
 SLEEP, O CUP-BEARER, GIVE US, O 
 GIVE US CLEAR WINE, O CUP-BEARER, 
 ERE YET THE CUPS OF OUR HEADS 
 ARE MADE INTO FLAGONS, POUR FROM 
 THY FLAGON INTO OUR CUP, O CUP- 
 BEARER. 
 
TO THE WISE READER IN THE BOOK 
 OF LIFE, JOY, SORROW, WEAL, AND 
 WOE ARE ALL ALIKE. SINCE GOOD 
 AND II. I. ALIKE MUST HAVE THEIR 
 . II MAT] ERS I.I I 1 II". WHETHER 
 OUR PORTION BE GOOD OR EVIL. 
 
 < I \-l BABBLING OF THE KORAN. 
 < [7P-BEARJ R, GIVE ME FREE QUARTERS 
 \l 1 ill. WINE-HOUSE, (• CUP-BEARER ; 
 I III NIGH I' OF l HOSl l Rl l- QUARTERS 
 IN Mil. INN SUM. I. BE MY NIGHT OF 
 NIGH IS, CUP-BEARER. 
 
 KNOW VOU WHY A I [HE HOUR OF 
 Nil DAWNING .!H. COCK SHRILLS 
 lll> I R] ■.>! I \ I cl ARION ? IT IS 11 I 
 MINI' YOU l'\ I Hi. MIRROR OF 
 MORNING, HI \l 1 ROM YOUR i KIST1 NCE 
 \ NIGH I II IS S] IPPED, AND YOU ARE 
 -III I IGNOB W I. 
 
CXLI 
 
 ART WISE ENOUGH TO LEARN IN 
 LITTLE THE TRUTH OF MAN? A MISER- 
 ABLE BEING MOULDED FROM THE MUD 
 OF SORROW. A LITTLE WHILE HE 
 EATS UPON THIS EARTH, THEN LIFTS 
 HIS FOOT TO WANDER HENCE. 
 
 NEVER WITH CHEER A DROP OF 
 WATER DO WE CONSUME, BUT FROM 
 THE HAND OF SORROW WE CONSUME 
 WINE. WE NEVER DIP A BIT OF BREAD 
 IN SALT, BUT WE CONSUME OUR OWN 
 VITALS. 
 
 LORD, FREE ME FROM THIS PUZZLE 
 OF THE MORE AND LESS. ABSORB ME 
 IN THEE AND FREE ME FROM MYSELF. 
 WHILE I CAN REASON I KNOW GOOD 
 AND EVIL: INTOXICATE ME, AND FREE 
 ME FROM KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND 
 EVIL. 
 
( \1 11 
 
 ME1 
 
 on LORD, HAVE MERCY ON MV CAP- 
 riVl 111 ART, HAVE MERCY ON MY 
 SORROW-LADEN BREAST, HAVE MERCY 
 ON MY TAVERN-TURNING FOOT, AND 
 
 ON MY HANK I 11 \ I CATCH] S Al I III 
 
 ( II'. 
 
 1 \M WHAT I Il\ POWER FASHIONED. 
 1 MAYl I [VED A HUNDRED YEARS RICH 
 in ITTV GIFTS AND GRACE. I Won D 
 FAIN LIV1 MI ONI HUNDRED YEARS 
 
 OF SIN \M' SI I IN l 111 END IF THE 
 SUM <>! MY FAULTS <>K TMY PITY 11 
 I 1 1 1 GR] \ I 1 R. 
 
 SAY, wii \i man «>n i \uni HAS 
 NEVER SINN! I>? SAY, WHO toil l> 1 ivi 
 \NI> NIA I R -IN 5 11,1 III R] FORE, B] - 
 c \i -l I DO hi VOU PUNISH ME r\ 
 II I , -\\, I III N, WHER1 I- l ill DIF- 
 I i.Kl Ni 1 11 rWEEN 1 HI l \N1> Ml ? 
 
CXLIH 
 
 JUSTICE IS THE SOUL OF THE WORLD, 
 AND THE WORLD IS A BODY. THE 
 ANGELS ARE ITS SENSES, THE SKIES 
 ITS ELEMENTS, HUMANITY ITS LIMBS. 
 THIS IS THE ETERNAL UNITY, ALL 
 ELSE IS DELUSION. 
 
 THE CARES OF THIS WORLD ARE 
 NOT WORTH ONE BARLEYCORN. WE 
 ARE HAPPY. IF WE BREAKFAST WE 
 DO NOT DINE. WE ARE HAPPY. 
 NAUGHT COOKED COMES TO US FROM 
 THE KITCHEN. WE BESEECH NO ONE. 
 WE ARE HAPPY. 
 
 MY POOR HEART, SYMPATHETIC AND 
 DISTRAUGHT, IS DEEPLY DROWNED IN 
 THE LOVE OF MY WELL-BELOVED. THE 
 DAY THE WINE OF LOVE WAS POURED, 
 MY SHARE WAS DRAWN FROM THE 
 BLOOD OF MY HEART. 
 
y >■ * . CXI.IV 
 
 THEV BID ME DRINK LESS WINE, AND 
 WONDER WHY I WILL NOT RENOUNCE. 
 WHY, BECAUSE I III 1 A( E OF MY 
 FRIEND IS I HI. MORNING WINE. COULD 
 I HERE BE A BETTER REASON" ? 
 
 O THOU WHOSE I IP IS WET WITH 
 llll WATER nK LIFE, DO NOT LET 
 I 111 I II' (>K I III: CUP COME NIGH. 
 MAY I I "M MY NAME IE I DO NO! 
 SLAKE MS \ I V.I W< I INI III. BLOOD 
 "I I III. ( IT I HAT DARES TO LAY IIS 
 I IPS 1" l him:. 
 
 I \kl ( UP \ N I . II \i;.>\ |\ mv 
 H INDS, ll LOVED, LET US HAS! IN ["0 
 llll I III DS VND SI Rl \M>, FOR MANY 
 MAID] NS LOVELY AS llll Moon HAVE 
 i i in i 1 1 \ I LAS! INTO CUPS AND 
 i l v, 
 
CXLV 
 
 DO NOT RIOT IN THE TAVERN ; 
 ABIDE THERE WITHOUT BRAWLING. 
 SELL YOUR TURBAN, SELL YOUR 
 KORAN TO BUY WINE, THEN HURRY 
 PAST THE MOSQUE WITHOUT GOING IN. 
 
 NEVER WOUND WITH SORROW A 
 JOYOUS HEART, NOR BREAK WITH THE 
 STONES OF TORMENT ONE MOMENT 
 OF DELIGHT. SINCE NONE CAN SAY 
 WHAT IS TO COME, OUR NEEDS ARE 
 WINE, A BELOVED, AND DESIREFUL 
 EASE. 
 
 SOME MEDITATE OF RELIGIONS AND 
 BELIEFS, SOME SWAY BEWILDERED BE- 
 TWIXT DOUBT AND KNOWLEDGE. 
 SUDDENLY THE WATCHER CRIES, 
 " FOOLS, YOUR ROAD IS NOT HERE 
 NOR THERE." 
 
 L 
 
i \!.VI 
 
 C ' ' <~ )\ \ 
 
 WHERE ARE RUBY LIPS, JEWELS OF 
 YOUTH? WHERE IS THE SCEN I BD 
 WINE I'll \ I >OOTHES THE SOUL? IT 
 [S FORBIDDEN BY THE MOSLEM CREED. 
 DRINK, FOR WHERE IS THE MOS] EM 
 I REED ? 
 
 EVIL-DOER, NEVER DOING GOOD, 
 WHO SEEK SHELTER WITH DIVINITY, 
 BEWARE OF TRUSTING TO BE PARDONED, 
 FOR Mil NOTHING-DOER RESEMBLES 
 V'l Mil DOER \NV MORE THAN THE 
 DOER REPR1 SENTS I HI NOTHING-DOER. 
 
 BES1 ro DUT u. IN JO\ \l ONI . BES1 
 rO TAK1 l III. CI P PROM nil l IN'. I RS 
 OF I III MOST FAIR, BES1 l HE IN D'\l- 
 CATION OF III! CALENDARS, BES1 IS 
 
 W INI "1 \i I l II \l 111^ Bl rM i IN 1 III. 
 \ND Mil. EARTH. 
 
CXLVII 
 
 THE HEAVEN IS A BOWL INVERTED 
 OVER OUR HEADS. THE WISE ARE 
 SHAMED AND FEEBLE, BUT THE CUP 
 AND JAR ARE FAST FRIENDS. THEY 
 ARE LIP TO LIP THOUGH BLOOD FLOWS 
 BETWEEN THEM. 
 
 THE DROP OF WATER SORROWED 
 TO BE SUNDERED FROM THE OCEAN. 
 OCEAN SMILING SAID, " WE ARE ALL 
 IN ALL, GOD IS WITHIN AND AROUND 
 US, AND WE ARE DIVIDED BUT BY 
 AN IMPERCEPTIBLE POINT. 
 
 OH, WOULD THAT THERE WERE A 
 PLACE TO REST, THAT BY THIS ROAD 
 WE MIGHT ARRIVE ; OH, THAT AFTER 
 A HUNDRED THOUSAND YEARS WE 
 MIGHT ARISE ANEW FROM THE HEART 
 OF THE EARTH LIKE THE GREEN 
 GRASSES. 
 
. CXI. VIII 
 
 WEEP NOT FOR THIS BUSTLING 
 WORLD, CALL FOR WINK AND FOR 
 YOUR DEAR, FOR THAT FROM WHICH 
 MAN DROPPED TO-DAY, HE SEEKS TO 
 ENTER AGAIN TO-MORROW. 
 
 KNOW THYSELF IF THOU ART WISE, 
 AND SEE WHAT THOU. HAST BROUGHT 
 WITH THEE, AND WHAT THOU Will 
 I\K1. AWAY. YOU WILL NOT DRINK 
 FORSOOTH BECAUSE YOU MUST DIE. 
 WHY, WHETHER YOU DRINK OR NO, 
 MUSI DIE. 
 
 ill tiOn I in u I IGHT OF I HE 
 WOR] D OPPR1 SS YOU, DO NOT V l X 
 YOUR SOUL WITH I ill THOUGH! "I 
 I HOSE WHO 1I.W I PASSED AWAY, YIELD 
 MOT YOUR HEART SAVE TO im: 
 I \li:l - 1 01 I in. FAIR, M VER I ICK 
 GOOD WINE NOR CAST Voir mm rO 
 I HE WIND. 
 
CXLIX 
 
 WHENEVER YOU CAN GET TWO 
 MEASURES OF WINE, DRINK, WHERE- 
 EVER YOU MAY BE, FOR HE WHO 
 ACTS THUS IS FREE FROM THY SCORN 
 OR MY SCORN. 
 
 THEY BID YOU DRINK NO WINE UN- 
 DER PENALTY OF FIERY PAINS ON THE 
 DAY OF RECKONING. NEVERTHELESS, 
 THE MOMENT IN WHICH WINE MAKES 
 YOU HAPPY IS BETTER THAN THE RE- 
 WARDS OF THIS WORLD OR THE NEXT. 
 
 ALAS, FATE WILL NOT LET ME 
 LIVE ANIGH THEE, YET I CANNOT 
 BEAR TO LIVE A HAIR'S BREADTH 
 APART FROM THEE. I DARE NOT 
 SHARE MY WOES WITH ANYONE. OH, 
 HARD LOT, STRANGE SORROW, FAIR 
 PASSION. 
 
II YOV 1-1. IK. HI IN DARKENING 
 I III. FREE HEART, WEAR MOURNING 
 FOB York WITS VOUR WHOLE LIFE 
 LONG, AND BE ACCURSED FOR THE 
 FOOI VOU ARE, 
 
 I WOULD I 1IAI GOD KI BUIL1 THE 
 WORLD ANEW, AM" THAT I MIGHT SE1 
 I HE Wi'KK. BEGUN. I WOU1 I' THAI 
 GOD BLOTTED MY NAME FROM THE 
 ROL1 "1 Ml 1., OR OF HIS BOUNTY 
 MAM 1 II I. Ml M MORE FAIR. 
 
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 \ BOOK i'l vi RSI S, A I "\1 OF BREAD, 
 \\l> \ LITTLE ll'i i M — . ii WH H 
 >i ill 5TOR1 l Ml'. H I SI l 1A i BTV Dl AB 
 SID1 IN SOME l ONI l Y M \t l . I SHi Tl D 
 I'l 1 M MYS1 I 1 H \1T1! Rill \N A KIM. 
 l\ ill-- KINGDOM. 
 
CLI 
 
 WE TRUST IN DIVINE GOODNESS 
 WHICH DELIVERS US FROM SIN AND 
 DUTY, FOR WHERE THY LOVING KIND- 
 NESS IS, HE WHO DOES NOT, AND HEj 
 WHO DOES ARE EQUAL. 
 
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 BE RESIGNED TO SORROW IF YOU 
 WISH TO ESCAPE IT. DO NOT COMPLAIN 
 OF YOUR HURTS IF YOU WOULD HAVE 
 THEM HEALED. IF YOU WOULD FAIN 
 TASTE THE JOYS OF RICHES, THEN 
 THANK PROVIDENCE FOR YOUR POVERTY. 
 
 THE FLOWERS ARE FULL IN BLOSSOM, 
 O CUP-BEARER ; BRING WINE AND QUIT 
 YOUR PRAYERS, O CUP-BEARER ; ERE 
 YET DEATH'S ANGEL RISES UP AGAINST 
 US, COME CUP IN HAND, AND BE HAPPY 
 AWHILE WITH THE BELOVED, O CUP- 
 BEARER. 
 
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 DRINK WINE, DEAR FRIEND, AND 
 hi [ [GH l IN VOUR BELOVED, GIVE 
 SMUG HYPOCRISY THE GO-BY. DO YOU 
 FOLLOW THE LAW OF MAHOMMED, 
 [HEN TAKE A CUP OF WINE FROM THE 
 BOWL WHEN All PLAYS THE CUP- 
 II Al:l R. 
 
 IN mi: KITCHEN OF LIFE, VO.U 
 
 SAVOUR l 'MA l 111. SMOKE. HOW I I ING 
 WI1 I. \< »U SI UDY IN SORROW THE 
 PROB1 I M OF II ING AND N<»| I 
 rHIS WORLD IS LOSS TO THOSE THAI 
 CLING l" M. CAS1 11 U'Kll I, AND 
 i 111 LOSS IS (, UN. 
 
 OH, I HOU WHI 1S1 l —I N< 1 IS UN- 
 KNOWAB1 I TO MIND, THOU \\ HO 
 III EDES1 M I I HER OUR 1 U "1 rS NOR 
 OUR VIRTUES,! \M DRUNK WITH SINS, 
 
 I IN 1 111 I M \KI.S Ml. 
 
 til UPON rHY CLEMENCY. 
 
CLII1 
 
 THOUGH WE HAVE NO WISH TO VEX 
 MEN IN THEIR SLEEP, TO SHOCK THE 
 NIGHT WITH THEIR DESPAIRING CRIES, 
 STILL DO NOT PRIDE YOURSELF EITHER 
 ON YOUR WEALTH OR YOUR COMELI- 
 NESS, FOR A SINGLE NIGHT MAY SWEEP 
 THEM BOTH AWAY. 
 
 IF FROM THE FIRST YOU MADE ME 
 KNOW MYSELF, WHY AFTER WOULD 
 YOU SUNDER ME FROM MYSELF? IF 
 FROM THE FIRST IT WAS YOUR PUR- 
 POSE TO ABANDON ME, WHY DID YOU 
 FLING ME HELPLESS INTO THE MIDDLE 
 OF THIS WORLD? 
 
 IF THE WAYS OF THE WORLD WERE 
 BUT BASED ON IMITATION, ALL DAYS 
 WOULD BE HOLIDAYS. WERE IT NOT 
 FOR THOSE VAIN THREATENINGS, 
 EVERYONE MIGHT LIVE LIFE TO HIS 
 OWN [.IKING. 
 
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 HEART, MY HEART, IF YOU FREE 
 
 YOURSEL1 FROM EARTHLY CARES, YOU 
 
 WILL BECOME PURE SOUL AND SCALE 
 THE SKIES. THEN WHAT A SHAME 
 
 \NI> SORROW TO HAVE DWELT ON 
 EAR Hi ' 
 
 POTTER, HAVE A (ARE IF YOU 
 \kl WIS! . HOW LONG WILL YOU 
 l>l GRADE I HE CLAY OF MAN ? IT IS 
 I 111 I ING1 R OF FERIDOUN, I I IS I in: 
 HAND OF KAI-KHOSROU, IHM YOU 
 PI \(l UPON l HI will 1 I . WHAT ARE 
 • HINKING OF? 
 
 II INI HIS I II I YOU FEASTED 1 111 . 
 w II A I I III N ? SUPPOS1 l Hi l VTES1 
 "I YOl R DAYS II \- COME, WH \1 1 HEN? 
 n \<>r ii \\ i i i\ in \ HUNDR1 D H \1'1A 
 \ I \Un \N'|) HAVE YET A HUNDRED 
 N I \k - i" LIVE, w 1 1 \ 1 I 111 N ? 
 
CLV 
 
 KNOWEST THOU WHY THE LILY AND 
 THE CYPRESS HAVE SUCH FAIR RENOWN 
 WITH MEN ? BECAUSE THE ONE, WITH 
 TEN TONGUES, IS SILENT ; BECAUSE THE 
 OTHER WITH A HUNDRED HANDS, KEEPS 
 THEM FROM PICKING AND STEALING. 
 
 BEHOLD IN THE ZEPHYR THE ROBE 
 OF THE ROSE EXPANDING, THE NIGHTIN- 
 GALE DELIGHTING IN THE BEAUTY OF 
 THE ROSE ; SIT IN THE SHADE OF 
 THE ROSE, FOR MANY TIMES THIS 
 ROSE FROM EARTH HAS COME, AND 
 UNTO EARTH HAS GONE. 
 
 WOE S ME FOR WASTED LIFE, FOR 
 PROHIBITED PLEASURES, AND CONTAMI- 
 NATED BODIES. MY FACE IS BLACKENED 
 FOR NOT HAVING DONE WHAT THOU 
 HAST ORDERED. HOW THEN IF I HAD 
 DONE WHAT THOU HAST NOT ORDERED ? 
 
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 HOW I ONG SHA1 !. I VI X Ml. WITH 
 THE II.WK OK HAVE-NOT, WITH WON- 
 MG II' I SHOULD OR SHOULD NOT 
 LIFE II EASANTLY? NAY, FILL 
 I Hi: CUP, MY CUP-BEARER, FOR IN 
 I t ■ t I II 1 KNOW NOT IF I SHALL BREATHE 
 ••i| I III BREATH 1 NOW BREA1 ML IN. 
 
 IN THIS H LIFE, PHILOSOPHER, 
 
 DRINK RED WINE, SO EVERY ATOM OF 
 IHV DUST WHICH I HI. WIND YET SHALL 
 CARRY, WILL FALL -111 PED IN WINE, 
 ON l III I HR1 SHOl D OF 1 H! fAVERN. 
 
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 CERY LANE, IN JANUARY, MDCCCLXXXIX, 
 AND WAS FINISHED IN MAY OF THE SAME 
 YEAR. FIVE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES 
 WERE PRINTED ON SMALL PAPER AND SIXTY 
 ON LARGE PAPER. 
 

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