Listen to:
The Eternal Saki (1:05)
by Omar Khayyam
translated by Edward Fitzgerald
performed by Bob Gonzalez, rhapsode
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, verses 44, 46-47
translated by Edward Fitzgerald
XLIV
Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,
And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,
Were't not a Shame--were't not a Shame for him
In this clay carcase crippled to abide?
XLVI
And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account, and mine, should know the like no more;
The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour'd
Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour.
XLVII
When You and I behind the Veil are past,
Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,
Which of our Coming and Departure heeds
As the Sea's self should heed a pebble-cast.
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