Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . a Omar Khayyam boughs over the garden wall, and dropped theirflowers upon his tomb, so that the stone was hiddenunder them., Thus far — without fear of Trespass — from theCalcutta Review. The writer of it. on reading inIndia this story of Omars Grave, was reminded, hesays, of Ciceros Account of finding ArchimedesTomb at Syracuse, buried in grass and weeds. Ithink Thorwaldsen desired to have roses grow overhim; a wish religiously fulfilled for him to the pres-ent day, I believe. However, to return to Omar. Though the Sultan showerd Favo

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . a Omar Khayyam boughs over the garden wall, and dropped theirflowers upon his tomb, so that the stone was hiddenunder them., Thus far — without fear of Trespass — from theCalcutta Review. The writer of it. on reading inIndia this story of Omars Grave, was reminded, hesays, of Ciceros Account of finding ArchimedesTomb at Syracuse, buried in grass and weeds. Ithink Thorwaldsen desired to have roses grow overhim; a wish religiously fulfilled for him to the pres-ent day, I believe. However, to return to Omar. Though the Sultan showerd Favours uponhim, Omars Epicurean Audacity of Thought andSpeech caused him to be regarded askance in hisown Time and Country. He is said to have beenespecially hated and dreaded by the Sufis, whosePractice he ridiculed, and whose Faith amounts tolittle more than his own when stript of the Mysti-. id s Trwrw^rrrwrw^rwrw^rwrw^rvrw^rwrWW*

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