Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Omar Khayyam Genius and Learning with a bitter or humorousjest into the general Ruin which their insufficientglimpses only served to reveal; and, pretendingsensual pleasure as the serious purpose of Life,only diverted himself with speculative problems ofDeity, Destiny, Matter and Spirit, Good and Evil,and other such questions, easier to start than torun down, and the pursuit of which becomes avery weary sport at last! With regard to the present Translation. Theoriginal Rubaiyat (as, missing an Arabic Gut-tural, these Tetrastichs are mo

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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Omar Khayyam Genius and Learning with a bitter or humorousjest into the general Ruin which their insufficientglimpses only served to reveal; and, pretendingsensual pleasure as the serious purpose of Life,only diverted himself with speculative problems ofDeity, Destiny, Matter and Spirit, Good and Evil,and other such questions, easier to start than torun down, and the pursuit of which becomes avery weary sport at last! With regard to the present Translation. Theoriginal Rubaiyat (as, missing an Arabic Gut-tural, these Tetrastichs are more musically called)are independent Stanzas, consisting each of fourLines of equal, though varied, Prosody ; sometimesall rhyming, but oftener (as here imitated) thethird line a blank. Sometimes as in the GreekAlcaic, where the penultimate line seems to liftand suspend the Wave that falls over in the usual with such kind of Oriental Verse, the. mil .mimiiimimiiiiirr zm umxi cog lniMiiinm

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