In one part of this work, the narrator recalls how he used to go to hear the "great argument" of th e "Doctor and Saint," but ended up leaving by the same door through which he came in, while elsewhere he notes that "a single hair divides the false and true.
In one part of this work, the narrator recalls how he used to go to hear the "great argument" of th e "Doctor and Saint," but ended up leaving by the same door through which he came in, while elsewhere he notes that "a single hair divides the false and true." This work begins with the invocation to wake, and a later stanza notes that "Whether in Nishapur or Babylon... The wine of life keeps oozing drop by drop," while a later stanza contains the famous imagery of a moving finger that "writes, and having writ, moves on." Its most famous lines come from its 12th stanza, which calls for "A book of verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou." Famously translated by Edward FitzGerald, for ten points, identify this poem in 101 quatrains originally written by a Sufi poet.
In one part of this work, the narrator recalls how he used to go to hear the "great argument" of th e "Doctor and Saint," but ended up leaving by the same door through which he came in, while elsewhere he notes that "a single hair divides the false and true.
The {Rubaiyaat} of Omar Kayyam