Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness—And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat, Stanza 12 (variant)
c. 11th-12th Century
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"The Potter's Circle, where the pots are made, and broken, and made again, is the symbol of life and death."
Strange & Unusual"And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One Flash of it within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright."
Humorous"And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite, One thing is certain, and the rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies."
Controversial"Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn I lean'd, the Secret of my Life to learn: And Lip to Lip it murmur'd—'While you live, Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return.'"
Strange & Unusual"I sent my soul through the invisible, some letter of that after-life to spell."
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