An online archive of the first five editions of Edward FitzGerald's translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.

1859 edition, stanza 41

1859 edition, stanza 41

For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line,

And, 'Up-and-down' without, I could define,

⁠I yet in all I only cared to know,

Was never deep in anything but—Wine.