The Rubaiyat of Omer Khayyam [Archives:2006/972/Culture]
Translated by Edward Fitz Gerald
And this I know: whether the one true light,
Kindle to love, or wrath consume me quite,
One glimpse of it within the tavern caught
Batter than in the temple lost outright
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