Illustration described in QUATRAIN I p. 41 [First Edition of the Translation] QUATRAIN I p. 41
[First Edition of the Translation]
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.
Illustration described in QUATRAIN XI p. 46 [First Edition of the Translation] QUATRAIN XI p. 46
[First Edition of the Translation]
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.


RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM

THE FIRST EDITION
OF THE TRANSLATION