The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Archives:2006/920/Culture]
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
Think in this batter'd caravanserai
Whose doorways are alternate night and day,
How sultan after sultan with his pomp
Abode his hour or two, and went his way.
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