Growing Up Male – Rubaiyat

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The Rubaiyat Of
Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat

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1. Translated by Edward FritzGerald

2. Gutneberg Project online library - Read

Omar Khayyam,
The Astronomer-Poet of Persia.

Omar Khayyam was born at Naishapur in Khorassan in the latter half of our Eleventh, and died within the First Quarter of our Twelfth Century. The Slender Story of his Life is curiously twined about that of two other very considerable Figures in their Time and Country: oneof whom tells the Story of all Three.

“A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot”

-- Allan Beck