Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

'The Moving Finger writes; and, having writMoves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a lineNor all thy tears wash out a word of it.'In the 'rubiyt' (short epigrammatic poems) of the medieval Persian poet, mathematician, and philosopher Omar Khayym, Edward FitzGerald saw an unflinching challenge to the illusions and consolations of mankind in every age. His version of Om...