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

1868 edition, stanza 15

1868 edition, stanza 15

Look to the blowing Rose about us—'Lo,

'Laughing,' she says, 'into the world I blow:

'At once the silken tassel of my Purse

'Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.'