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1708
for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. FOR MORNING AND THE BOWL OF NIGHT HAS FLUNG THE STONE THAT PUTS THE STARS TO FLIGHT AND LO THE HUNTER OF THE EAST HAS CAUGHT THE SULTAN'S TURRET IN A NOOSE OF LIGHT
owell.] [Footnote 7: Perhaps would have edited the Poems himself some years ago. He may now as little approve of my Version on one side, as of Mons. Nicolas' Theory on the other.] [Footnote 8: A note to Quatrain 234 admits that, however clear the mystical meaning of such Images must be to Europeans, they are not quoted without "rougissant" even by laymen in Persia--"Quant aux termes de tendresse qui commencent ce quatrain, comme tant d'autres dans ce recueil, nos lecteurs, habitues maintenant a 1'etrangete des expressions si souvent employees par Kheyam pour rendre ses pensees sur l'amour divin, et a la singularite des images trop orientales, d'une sensualite quelquefois revoltante, n'auront pas de peine a se persuader qu'il s'agit de la Divinite, bien que cette conviction soit vivement discutee par les moullahs musulmans, et meme par beaucoup de laiques, qui rougissent veritablement d'une pareille licence de leur compatriote a 1'egard des choses spirituelles."] First Edition I. Awake!  O THE RUBAIAT OF OMAR KHAYENNE BY OMAR KHAYEM TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD THIS IS A LIBER BOX RECORDING ALL LIBERVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBER BOX DOT ORG THE RUBAIAT OF OMAR KHAYAM BY OMAR KHAYAM TRANSLATED BY EDWARD FITZGERALD AWAKE
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