The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám is a collection of poems authored by Persian astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyám. The poems in this title are written into quatrains, Rubaiyat being arabic for root of four, as in four line verses of which quatrains are made up of. One of the best-known, most often quoted English classics. This is Edward FitzGerald's free translation of skeptical, hedonistic verse attributed to Omar Khayyám (1048–1122).
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