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

1872 edition, stanza 48

1872 edition, stanza 48

A Moment's Halt—a momentary taste

Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste—

And LO!—the phantom Caravan has reach'd

The NOTHING it set out from—Oh, make haste!