The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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

XXI.

And this delightful Herb whose tender Green
Fledges the River's Lip on which we lean --
Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows
From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!

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