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

1872 edition, stanza 42

1872 edition, stanza 42

And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press,

End in what All begins and ends in—Yes;

Think then you are TO-DAY what YESTERDAY

You were—TO-MORROW you shall not be less.