The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (38) [Archives:2006/964/Culture]

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July 17 2006

Translated by Edward FitzGerald
And that inverted bowl we call the sky,

Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,

Lift not thy hands to it for help-for it

Rolls impotenly on as thou or I.

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