This scene accompanied second stanza on Dawn in the Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam that dates to the early 1900s.
This page decoration accompanied a printing of the Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam that dates to the early 1900s. It accompanies the second stanza on "Dawn": Dreaming when Dawn's Left Hand was in the Sky/I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,/"Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup/"Before Life's Liquor in its Cup be dry." The 19th-century English poet Edward Fitzgerald gave the title "Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam" to his translation of a series of poems (about 1,000 of them) that the Persian poet, mathematician, and astronomer Omar Kayyam (1048–1131) is said to have written. The term "rubai" is Persian for a stanza of poetry that has two lines and two sections to each line. Rubaiyat, in turn, derives from the Arabic language root for "four." Present-day Iran encompasses much of what was once Persia.
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