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

1859 edition, stanza 57

1859 edition, stanza 57

Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin

Beset the Road I was to wander in,

⁠Thou wilt not with Predestination round

Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?