The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 22 [Archives:2006/932/Culture]
March 27 2006
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
And we, that now make merry in the room
They left, and summer dresses in new bloom,
Ourselves must we beneath the couch of earth
Descend, ourselves to make a couch-for whom?
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