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review 2014-08-10 20:29
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Dodo Press) - Omar Khayyám,Edward FitzGerald

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

Khayyam struck me as a man with a love-hate relationship with the old vino, which sort of implies that perhaps he wasn’t the strictest Muslim. I wonder if that was a such terrible thing 900 years ago when he was alive.

 

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Source: literaryames.wordpress.com/2014/08/10/rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam-by-omar-khayyam
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