The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Rendered into English by Edward Fitzgerald
Illustrations by Edmund J. Sullivan
1859

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 Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.

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