Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . LXXVIII What! out of senseless Nothing to provokeA conscious Something to resent the yoke Of unpermitted Pleasure, under painOf Everlasting Penalties, if broke ! LXXIX What! from his helpless Creature be repaidPure Gold for what he lent him dross-allayd — Sue for a Debt we never did contract,And cannot answer — Oh the sorry trade ! LXXX Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with ginBeset the Road I was to wander in, Thou wilt not with Predestind Evil roundEnmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin ! &.

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