Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1884-12-07
OMAR KHAYIAM.
The Poet Astronomer or Persic

Vedder, is an ontcrop Of the tast
for Oriental literature. which f.
some years past has been steadil
growing in this country.
! The book is the most elahorat
thing ever ATTEMPTED IN Amnric.
and costs 800 per single volume
There are one hundred and en
verses in all and each illustrated
The writer believes from good
! thnrity that the first volume u
Omar that made its appearance j.
this country was bfonght fron
England, by Frank Mayo the actor
he having found it in Londc.
book stand.
The original manuscript, now IL
the British Mus .um WIS purchased
for $23.O00 aud is emhe!lished il
col"rs by the poet Own hand.
QUAR- lived in the eleventh cen.
turv. and was Persian astrono-
mtr. the word Khavyam signifies
tent, maker.
Much f Omar's work persisted
With him. but enough Of it has
threaded its way down seven cen
turies and comes to us as fresh as
the day it WAS penned.
After reading it one is impressed
with the fact that while the world
has progressed in civilization, it has
refrigerated in poetry since t.: T.
time. II fact it is hard to find a
metaphor or a good line in the
WOO Ks 1T a modern poet tlat car
not be t ac"d back to tho beautiful
imagery of the Persian. from whose
brain leared the Twin. fire that
would net pale even before the
light Of Shakespeare eenins.
Nearly every modern poet Of the
ima.ination has thrust his larcen-
Ous hand into the same rich and
evhaustI"ss erancrv. Omar wrote
I sometimes think there n Yer blows so
The roSn, Us where som, buried Ca >ar
bled;
nf0x h J., M
Dropt in her Up from som, once love
head.
An this raviving herb whose tender
FledreS the riverlip, on which we
All, lon uIo1 it lightly! for who
From what once lovely head it springs
I'M :een!
Oscar Wilde. who writes poetry
with great Celebration end finish
has taken his text from Omar and
amnl fed the idea as follows, in
his Panthra
This hn. harl fl ,me with which our
bO lies burn
VIII "akn some meadow blaze with
deffnll,
Ay! and those argent breasts Of thine
will tl"n
To w'ter-lileis; the brown fields men
Will DO moro fruitful for our love to-
NIGHT,
is lo.' n nntnrn. all things live |
in Dea:'.'' despite.
The bows first k 'ss, the hyac.n.h's FIRST
The m NJ last passion, and the last |
rel spar
Thnt ON ~" l-lv Inapr. tn" aSphOdnl |
Which W II not lot is blossoms blow |
Or too much beauty, and the timid |
Sh"mn
OF the Young Bridegroom ut his lover |
cyee.-''laSr with the same
One sa"ramont are consecrato, tho
Not wn love hHt', -nSs:ons h~r,, neal.
The yellow buttercups that shake for
m"t',
At daybreak know pleasure not less
roal
Than wn'o, whom in some FIRE h-5los-
som+n wood
We draw tho sp~' n" in.O our hearts, and |
tool thrt l'fn is goo',
It may he doing Mr.. Wide an
injustice to say t. a. he Knowingly
an his cross cut in Omar ground.
He mi.ht never have road Omar
Until after he wrote Panthea.
However. the ore came from the
'ame vein. and the only difference
$ in the milling and reduction.
Both pieces will GO into circulation
IS good coin, but the native gold
viii be Omars.
Shakespeare himself trod in the
IDENTICAL footsteps Of Omars met
phor when he spoke Of the vie
cts that were to spring FROM the
lnpoIuted flesh of Ophelia.
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