An Alphabet of History by Wilbur D. Nesbit

Author:Wilbur D. Nesbit [Nesbit, Wilbur D. (Wilbur Dick)]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-30T00:00:00+00:00

OMAR

Old Omar, in a Tent he had to live,

Yet gave to Verse such Time as he could give;

Whereat the Critics rose and Hurled at Him:

"The Stuff you write is only Tentative."

Yet Khayyam never worried over that—

He kept his Troubles underneath his Hat

Except such Times as when he worked them up

Into an Apt and Pleasing Rubaiyat.

Fitzgerald, the Translator, took his Pen

And made a flowing Version; yes, and then

To show that he could keep it up a While,

Translated all the Rubaiyat again.

Now, is there any Home that Don't reveal

O. Khayyam's volume resting by "Lucille,"

Bound in Limp Leather, with each Edge uncut,

To show the Literary Sense we feel?

And is there any town from York to Butte

Wherein some Maiden fair don't Elocute

Through Khayyam's easy-speaking poetry,

With Musical Accomp'niment to suit?

Aye, verily! And where the Parodist

Who does not seek through all upon his List

And come back at the last to Khayyam's work

Each time to find New Chances he has missed?

A Good Cigar, a ready Fountain Pen

Or a Typewriter one can use, and then

A book of Omar whence to draw the Thought—

Oh, Parodies one will turn out again!

Some black initial letters here and there,

Perchance he also had E. Hubbard Hair—

But anyhow old Khayyam set a Task

To fill all his Successors with despair!

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