March 7, 1989 - November 26, 1999
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 Quatrain #73 (First Edition) Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits--and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire! |
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Omar's RubáiyátOmar Kahyyám was one of the eight learned men that helped to create the calander; the result was the Jaláli era. He also wrote over 400 four line stanzas called Rubáiyáts. Rubáiyát, a poem in Persian. Omar died at Náishapúr in the year of the Hegira, 517 (A.D. 1123). "My tomb shall be in a spot where the north wind may scatter roses over it." |
