Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . 2EEL Tnuan unuummjg I lirrt tn i ii g iilllJl I 111 HllJIIlf. ^k Omar Khayyam and worse for the Profane in proportion as theDevotion of the Initiated grew warmer. And allfor what ? To be tantalized with Images of sen-sual enjoyment which must be renounced if onewould approximate a God, who according to theDoctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, andinto whose Universe one expects unconsciously tomerge after Death, without hope of any posthu-mous Beatitude in another world to compensatefor all ones self-denial in this. Lucretius b
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . 2EEL Tnuan unuummjg I lirrt tn i ii g iilllJl I 111 HllJIIlf. ^k Omar Khayyam and worse for the Profane in proportion as theDevotion of the Initiated grew warmer. And allfor what ? To be tantalized with Images of sen-sual enjoyment which must be renounced if onewould approximate a God, who according to theDoctrine, is Sensual Matter as well as Spirit, andinto whose Universe one expects unconsciously tomerge after Death, without hope of any posthu-mous Beatitude in another world to compensatefor all ones self-denial in this. Lucretius blindDivinity certainly merited, and probably got, asmuch self-sacrifice as this of the Sufi ; and theburden of Omars Song — if not Let us eat —is assuredly — Let us drink, for To-morrow wedie! And if Hafiz meant quite otherwise by asimilar language, he surely miscalculated when hedevoted his Life and Genius to so equivocal aPsalmody as, from his Day to this, has been saidand sung by any rather than spiritual Worshippers.
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