Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . J55^ i i inrrti iTiimnj iiiinirm lllLJUIIUIIMMIIIHItlll IIT7TT1. PL Omar Khayyam doubt also many of the Quatrains in the Teheran,as in the Calcutta, Copies, are spurious; suchRiibdiydt being the common form of Epigram inPersia. But this, at best, tells as much one wayas another; nay, the Sufi, who may be consideredthe Scholar and Man of Letters in Persia, wouldbe far more likely than the careless Epicure to in-terpolate what favours his own view of the observed that very few of the more mysticalQuatrains are in the Bodleian MS.,

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . J55^ i i inrrti iTiimnj iiiinirm lllLJUIIUIIMMIIIHItlll IIT7TT1. PL Omar Khayyam doubt also many of the Quatrains in the Teheran,as in the Calcutta, Copies, are spurious; suchRiibdiydt being the common form of Epigram inPersia. But this, at best, tells as much one wayas another; nay, the Sufi, who may be consideredthe Scholar and Man of Letters in Persia, wouldbe far more likely than the careless Epicure to in-terpolate what favours his own view of the observed that very few of the more mysticalQuatrains are in the Bodleian MS., which must beone of the oldest, as dated at Shiraz, a. h. 865,a. D. 1460. And this, I think, especially distin-guishes Omar (I cannot help calling him by his —no, not Christian—familiar name) from_all_otherPersian Poets: That, whereas with them the Poetis lost in his Song, the Man in Allegory and Ab- ment discutee par les moullahs musulmans, et meme par beau-coup de laiques, qui rougissent veritablement dune pareillelicence de leur compatriote a legard des choses spirituelles.

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