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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál Together...

XXV.

Project Gutenberg EPUB edition Omar Khayyam, Emerson, Ralph Waldo, Jami, and FitzGerald, Edward
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Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn Are scatter’d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, and Salámán and Absál Together with a Life of Edward Fitzgerald and an Essay on Persian Poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Project Gutenberg eBook #22535

XXIV. XXVI.