The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam – 8 [Archives:2006/910/Culture]
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
And look – a thousand blossoms with the day
Woke – and a thousand scatter'd into clay:
And this first summer month that brings the rose
Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.
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