Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Notes looked for with the utmost Anxiety, and bailedwith Acclamation. Then it is that the PortersKnot maybe heard — toward the Cellar. Omarhas elsewhere a pretty Quatrain about the sameMoon — Be of Good Cheer — the sullen Month will die,And a young Moon requite us by and by : Look how the Old one meagre, bent, and wanWith Age and Fast, is fainting from the Sky!.

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