They tell me the other world is as beautiful as a houri from heaven!
Yet I say that the juice of the vine is better.
Prefer the present to those fine promises.
Even a drum sounds melodious from afar.
Persian poem in Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyait, translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Saturday, 18 April 2015
Ruabaiyait
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