The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (30) [Archives:2006/948/Culture]

Translated by Edward FitzGerald
For “Is” and “Is-not” though

with rule and line,

And “Up-and-down”

without, I could define,

I yet in all I only cared to know,

Was never deep in anything

but-wine.

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