“Ah, take the Cash in hand and wave the Rest; Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!”

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

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About Omar Khayyam

1048 – 1131

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

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