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from the

-- Rubaiyat

Omar Khayyam





Preface to the Fitzgerald Translation


These pearls of thought in Persian
gulfs were bred,
Each softly lucent as a rounded moon;
The diver - Omar plucked them from
their bed,
->Fitzgerald strung them on an English
thread.

- Lowell


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