The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (17) [Archives:2006/922/Culture]
February 20 2006
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
They say the lion and the lizard keep
The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep:
And Bahram, that great hunter – the wild ass
Stamps o'er his head, and he lies fast asleep.
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