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

1868 edition, stanza 57

1868 edition, stanza 57

You know, my Friends, how bravely in my House

For a new Marriage I did make Carouse:

Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed.

And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse.