Showing posts with label The Rubbayat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label The Rubbayat. Show all posts

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Rubbyat

Awake, for morning in the bowl of night
Hath flung the stone that puts the stars to flight
and low the Hunter of the Est hath caught
The Sultan's turret in a nose of gloden light

Omar Khayyam of Ancient Persia
This is the first of 88 Stanzas