Versos English Omar Khayyam Stanza

English poem

Stanza

by (1048–1131)

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XII. In ed. 2:

Here with a little Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse--and Thou, etc.

XIII. In ed. 2:

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Promise go, Nor heed the music of a distant Drum!

XX. In ed. 2:

And this delightful Herb whose living Green.

XXII. In edd. 2 and 3:

That from his Vintage rolling Time has prest.

XXVI. In edd. 2 and 3.

Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust.

XXVII. In ed. 2:

Came out by the same door as in I went.

XXVIII. In edd. 2 and 3.

And with my own hand wrought to make it grow.

XXX. In ed. 2.

Ah, contrite Heav'n endowed us with the Vine To drug the memory of that insolence! XXXI. In ed. 2:

And many Knots unravel'd by the Road.

XXXII. In edd. 2 and 3:

There was the Veil through which I could not see.

XXXIII. In ed. 2:

Nor Heav'n, with those eternal Signs reveal'd.

XXXIV. In ed. 2:

Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind The Veil of Universe I cried to find A Lamp to guide me through the darkness; and Something then said--«An Understanding blind.»

XXXV. In ed. 2:

I lean'd, the secret Well of Life to learn.