Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Notes pair of compasses ; though we have two heads ( feet) we have one body; when we have fixedthe centre for our circle, we bring our heads () together at the end. Dr. Donne : If we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two ;Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. And though thine in the centre sit,Yet when my other far does roam, Thine leans and hearkens after it, And grows ere6t as mine comes home. Such thou must be to me, who mustLike the other foot obliquely run ; Thy firm
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the astronomer-poet of Persia; . Notes pair of compasses ; though we have two heads ( feet) we have one body; when we have fixedthe centre for our circle, we bring our heads () together at the end. Dr. Donne : If we be two, we two are so As stiff twin-compasses are two ;Thy Soul, the fixt foot, makes no show To move, but does if the other do. And though thine in the centre sit,Yet when my other far does roam, Thine leans and hearkens after it, And grows ere6t as mine comes home. Such thou must be to me, who mustLike the other foot obliquely run ; Thy firmness makes my circle just,And me to end where I begun. (LIX.) The Seventy-two Religions supposedto divide the World, including Islamism, as somethink : but others
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