Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam by Omar Khayyam

Author:Omar Khayyam
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781620406571
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2016-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

. 79 .

What! from his helpless Creature be repaid

Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allayed—

Sue for a Debt he never did contract,

And cannot answer—Oh the sorry trade!

. 80 .

Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin

Beset the Road I was to wander in,

Thou wilt not with Predestin’d Evil round

Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!

. 81 .

Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,

And ev’n with Paradise devise the Snake:

For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man

Is blackened—Man’s forgiveness give—and take!

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