. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . The Century Magazine. Vol. XXIX. NOVEMBER, 1884. No. I. VEDDERS ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SONG OF OMAR KHAYYAM. In the latter half of the eleventh centuryand the first quarter of the twelfth there livedin Persia the astronomer-poet Omar, who borethe additional name of Khayyam, or thetent-maker. His scientific work remains notwholly obscure, we are told, but for the mostpart indistinguishable in the foundations up-on which later astronomers have built. Hispoetry retains its individuality, and gives joyto scholars by reason of its varying form andq
. Abraham Lincoln and the battles of the Civil War . The Century Magazine. Vol. XXIX. NOVEMBER, 1884. No. I. VEDDERS ACCOMPANIMENT TO THE SONG OF OMAR KHAYYAM. In the latter half of the eleventh centuryand the first quarter of the twelfth there livedin Persia the astronomer-poet Omar, who borethe additional name of Khayyam, or thetent-maker. His scientific work remains notwholly obscure, we are told, but for the mostpart indistinguishable in the foundations up-on which later astronomers have built. Hispoetry retains its individuality, and gives joyto scholars by reason of its varying form andquantity in rival manuscripts and was written in Rubaiyat, the Persian equiv-alent for quatrains, and four or five hundredof these stanzas, genuine or spurious, haveescaped the tooth of time and may be readnow, whether in their original tongue or byversions in French, German, English, anddoubtless other western languages. It was left for Mr. Edward Fitzgerald, anEnglish poet who put his strength into mascu-line versions of foreign poetry
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