The Ruba'iyat . as far as thou art able live for thyself for one moment, look not for to-morrow, seek not yesterday, behold the present!3 drink wine and consort with a company1 of the beautiful2is better than practising the hypocrisy3 of the zealot;4if the lover and the drunkard are doomed to hell,5then no one will see the face of cannot consume ones happy heart with sorrow,nor consume the pleasure of ones life upon the touchstone; 18. 246 Notes 2. Literally, The person is invisible (absent) who knows, etc. L. andW. begin the line, In this world he who knows, etc.;1 and
The Ruba'iyat . as far as thou art able live for thyself for one moment, look not for to-morrow, seek not yesterday, behold the present!3 drink wine and consort with a company1 of the beautiful2is better than practising the hypocrisy3 of the zealot;4if the lover and the drunkard are doomed to hell,5then no one will see the face of cannot consume ones happy heart with sorrow,nor consume the pleasure of ones life upon the touchstone; 18. 246 Notes 2. Literally, The person is invisible (absent) who knows, etc. L. andW. begin the line, In this world he who knows, etc.;1 and C. begins, Inthe obligation of knowing, 3. N. appends a note, God, a good specimen of his Sufistic tendency to whitewash poor Omar. 129. This quatrain is C. 416, L. 634, S. P. 345, B. 626. N. 348, W. 390, and E. C. 3,and we recognise in it the sentiment of F. v. 23. And we, that now make merry in the RoomThey left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of EarthDescend—ourselves to make a Couch—for whom ? 1. C. begins with the familiar mai kluir ki, Drink wine, for, for the sake, etc. 2. N. for Idol reads Come, a probable, but harmless, misplacement ofthe diacritical L. reads here, grasp the C. ends the line formany prayers,6 an error, I think, of the scribe. Compare Gulistan, ch. i., story 26 : For how many years and long lives Will the people walk over my head on the ground ;6 and again, sto
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