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

1879 edition, stanza 87

1879 edition, stanza 87

Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot—

I think a Sufi pipkin—waxing hot—

'All this of Pot and Potter—Tell me then,

Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?'