The Rebaiyat of Omar Khayyam (10) [Archives:2006/912/Culture]
January 16 2006
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
With me along some strip of herbage strown
That just divides the desert from the sown,
where name of slave and sultan scarce is known,
And pity Sultan Mahmud on his throne.
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