2 passages by Omar Khayyám, from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Omar Khayyám died in 1131, so the words are in the public domain; the English translation by Edward FitzGerald is too. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
Persian mathematician, astronomer and poet (1048–1131). The quatrains here are from Edward FitzGerald’s English version of the Rubáiyát (1859).
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
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