Excerpt from The Testament of Omar Khayyám, (the Wasiyyat): Comprising His Testament or Last Words, a Song, Hymn of Prayer, the Word in the Desert, Hymn of Praise, Also the Maráthi, or Odes of the Disciples

The gifted Fitzgerald took those verses too literally, and he was thus the means of giving the English speaking world a poem of extraordinary charm, which a little thought and care might have deprived of its incalculable harm.

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