“Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane, The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again: How oft hereafter rising shall she look Through this same Garden after me — in vain!”

— Omar Khayyam, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, trans. Edward FitzGerald, LXXIV (1859)

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1048 – 1131

Persian polymath and poet, whose quatrains were popularised in English by Edward FitzGerald.

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