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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia (4)

Fitzgerald, Edward / $ 17.80

• XXVIII

  With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow; And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd- "I came like water, and like wind I go."

• LXVI

  I sent my Soul through the Invisible, Some letter of that After-life to spell: And by and by my Soul return'd to me, And answer'd "I myself am Heav'n and Hell."

• XLVII

  When you and I behind the Veil are past, Oh,but the long,long while the World shall last, Which of our Coming and Depatures heeds As the Sea's self should heed a peddle-cast.