Excerpt from The Lover's RubaiyatThe charm of these quatrains took me captive, and ere long they began shaping to a unity and sequence, drawing together by magnetic attraction, until, with such stanzas from fitzgerald as seemed theircomplement in thought, they had evolved to a Persian love song, having all the coherence and atmosphere of the work of a single trans lator, yet blended, note by note, from that of ten.With two or three exceptions the transla tions from which the quatrains are taken are little known to the public, so that not only is their grouping into a love poem unique, but, except to students of Omar, the majority of the quatrains themselves will come as new acquaintances.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.