The Rubaiyat

After I came across an recent post at Melancholetta on Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, I remembered some of my favourite quatrains from it. On Life: Of threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain--This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. On Wine: Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare? A Blessing, we should use it, should we not? And if a Curse--why, then, Who set it there? A quatrain that says it all: 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! Omar Khayyam was a Persian mathematician, astronomer and philosopher. His poems were based on wine, women and song. technorati tags: poetry philosophy