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Absal, by Omar Khayyam and Ralph Waldo Emerson and Jami

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Title: Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Salaman and Absal
Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On
Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson

Author: Omar Khayyam and Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jami

Translator: Edward Fitzgerald

Release Date: September 7, 2007 [EBook #22535]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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[Illustration:

_"The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again:
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me--in vain!"_]

THE FITZGERALD CENTENARY EDITION

Rubaiyat
of
Omar Khayyam

AND

Salaman and Absal

RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE
BY
EDWARD FITZGERALD

TOGETHER WITH
A LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD
AND AN
ESSAY ON PERSIAN POETRY
BY
RALPH WALDO EMERSON

PEACOCK, MANSFIELD & CO., LTD.
PATERNOSTER ROW, LONDON

MCMIX

BOYLE, SON & WATCHURST,

Printers, &c.
Warwick Square, London, E.C.

CONTENTS.

PAGE

TO E. FITZGERALD iv

LIFE OF EDWARD FITZGERALD 1

PREFACE TO RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 11

RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM 21

SALAMAN AND ABSAL 43

PERSIAN POETRY, AN ESSAY BY RALPH WALDO EMERSON 101

TO E. FITZGERALD.

Old Fitz, who from your suburb grange
Where once I tarried for a while,
Glance at the wheeling Orb of change
And greet it with a kindly smile;
Whom yet I see, as there you sit
Beneath your sheltering garden tree,
And watch your doves about you fli