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'Omar Khayyám
The Persian Text with Paraphrase, and the First and Fourth Editions of Fitzgerald's Translation
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- English
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eBook - ePub
'Omar Khayyám
The Persian Text with Paraphrase, and the First and Fourth Editions of Fitzgerald's Translation
About this book
This book, first published in 1931, shows in a simple, sound and lucid manner how the genius of two poets (Omar Khayyam and FitzGerald) brought together by the genius of an Orientalist (Professor Cowell) culminated in a very strange, very beautiful and profound English poem. This book is concerned with the genuineness of the verses ascribed to Omar Khayyam, and consists of a comparison of the original Arabic, a paraphrase, and FitzGerald's first and fourth editions.
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| Omar Khayyám | Paraphrase |
 | (dome) On lofty roof the sun has cast his rays, The King of Day to fill his cup essays With wine; then quaff. The Muezzin of the dawn “Drink Ye” has chanted forth “into the days”. |
 | One morn from out our tavern came a cry:— “Rise! Tavern-haunting madman. Time doth fly. Rise! Let us fill our measures with fresh wine Ere Fate doth fill our measure ’neath the sky.” |
 | Now for the early draught and first Cockcrow! Hurrah for wine and wine-shops that we know! No time for good advice. O Saki. Hush! Away with fasts! and let the wine-jug flow! |
 | (a) The spring has come, the world in green is dight, Like Moses buds put forth their hands to light, With Jesus’ breath herbs from the ground arise And flowers to weeping skies unveil their sight. |
 | (b) The jocund spring doth now the world delight, And hearts attuned yearn for the country bright. Each bough parades the sheen of Moses’ hand The breath of Christ is felt in zephyrs slight. |
| FitzGerald, 1st edition | FitzGerald, 4th edition |
I Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And lo! The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultán’s Turret in a Noose of Light. | I Wake! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night, Drives Night along with them from Heav’n and strikes The Sultán’s Turret with a Shaft of Light. |
II Dreaming when Dawn’s Left Hand was in the Sky I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry, “Awake, my little ones, and fill the cup, Before Life’s Liquor in its Cup be dry.” | II Before the phantom of False morning died Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried, “When all the Temple is p... |
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Appendix I
- Appendix II
- Edward Fitzgerald’s Introduction
- Chapter 1
- Appendix