The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (43) [Archives:2006/974/Culture]

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August 21 2006

Translated by Edward Fitz Gerald
Oh, thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin

Beset the road I was to wander in,

Thou wilt not predestination round

Enmesh me, and impute my fall to sin?
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