Les Rubaïyat d'Omar Khayyam

Month: November 2018

  • 24 – Make the Most

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    XXIV Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and – sans End! Stanza 23 explained One may find inspiration in the Bible. Yet, the gentle reader may complain that the verse…

  • 23 – And we, who now make merry

    23 – And we, who now make merry

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    And we, who now make merry in this Room They flowered and left, Summer dressed in new Bloom Ourselves beneath Earth’s couch must we Descend ourselves to make a couch – for whom? Life is fleeting Life is an endless procession of birth and death, and, in between, we make merry on Earth’s couch, following…

  • Some we loved, the loveliest and the best – 22

    Some we loved, the loveliest and the best – 22

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    XXII Some we loved, the loveliest and the best, That from His vintage rolling time hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. French Certains d’entre nous aimé, le plus beau et le mieux, Que de son temps roulant sa vintage a pressé, Ont…