Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Jj!L Omar Khayyam cism and formal recognition of Islamism underwhich Omar would not hide. Their Poets, includ-ing Hafiz, who are (with the exception of Firdausi)the most considerable in Persia, borrowed largely,indeed, of Omars material, but turning it to amystical Use more convenient to Themselves andthe People they addressed; a People quite asquick of Doubt as of Belief; as keen of BodilySense as of Intellectual; and delighting in acloudy composition of both, in which they couldfloat luxuriously between Heaven and Earth, andthis Worl
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Jj!L Omar Khayyam cism and formal recognition of Islamism underwhich Omar would not hide. Their Poets, includ-ing Hafiz, who are (with the exception of Firdausi)the most considerable in Persia, borrowed largely,indeed, of Omars material, but turning it to amystical Use more convenient to Themselves andthe People they addressed; a People quite asquick of Doubt as of Belief; as keen of BodilySense as of Intellectual; and delighting in acloudy composition of both, in which they couldfloat luxuriously between Heaven and Earth, andthis World and the Next, on the wings of a poet-ical expression, that might serve indifferently foreither. Omar was too honest of Heart as well asof Plead for this. Having failed (however mis-takenly) of finding any Providence but Destiny,and any World but This, he set about making themost of it; preferring rather to soothe the Soulthrough the Senses into Acquiescence with Things nm ? »iii«nniitMiniiiiimivtninii rrw^
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