The Sufistic Quatrains Of Omar Khayyam Part 26

X. In ed. 2:

Let Rustum cry To Battle! as he likes, Or Hatim Tai To Supper!--heed not you

In ed. 3:

Let Zal and Rustum thunder as they will.

STANZA

XII. In ed. 2:

Here with a little Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse--and Thou, etc.

XIII. In ed. 2:

Ah, take the Cash, and let the Promise go, Nor heed the music of a distant Drum!

XX. In ed. 2:

And this delightful Herb whose living Green.

XXII. In edd. 2 and 3:

That from his Vintage rolling Time has prest.

XXVI. In edd. 2 and 3.

Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust.

XXVII. In ed. 2:

Came out by the same door as in I went.

XXVIII. In edd. 2 and 3.

And with my own hand wrought to make it grow.

x.x.x. In ed. 2.

Ah, contrite Heav'n endowed us with the Vine To drug the memory of that insolence!

x.x.xI. In ed. 2:

And many Knots unravel'd by the Road.

x.x.xII. In edd. 2 and 3:

There was the Veil through which I could not see.

x.x.xIII. In ed. 2:

Nor Heav'n, with those eternal Signs reveal'd.

x.x.xIV. In ed. 2:

Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind The Veil of Universe I cried to find A Lamp to guide me through the darkness; and Something then said--An Understanding blind.

x.x.xV. In ed. 2:

I lean'd, the secret Well of Life to learn.

STANZA

x.x.xVI. In ed. 2:

And drink; and that impa.s.sive Lip I kiss'd.

x.x.xVIII. In ed. 2 the only difference is For instead of And in the first line; but in the first draft of ed. 3 the stanza appeared thus:

For, in your Ear a moment--of the same Poor Earth from which that Human Whisper came, The luckless Mould in which Mankind was cast They did compose, and call'd him by the name.

In ed. 3 the first line was altered to--

Listen--a moment listen!--Of the same, etc.

x.x.xIX. In ed. 2:

On the parcht herbage but may steal below.

XL. In ed. 2:

As then the Tulip for her wonted sup Of Heavenly Vintage lifts her chalice up, Do you, twin offspring of the soil, till Heav'n To Earth invert you like an empty Cup.

In the first draft of ed. 3 the stanza is the same as in edd. 3 and 4, except that the second line is--

Of Wine from Heav'n her little Ta.s.s lifts up.

XLI. In ed. 2 and the first draft of ed. 3:

Oh, plagued no more with Human or Divine To-morrow's tangle to itself resign.

XLII. In ed. 2:

And if the Cup you drink, the Lip you press, End in what All begins and ends in--Yes; Imagine then you _are_ what heretofore You _were_--hereafter you shall not be less.

The first draft of ed. 3 agrees with edd. 3 and 4, except that the first line is--

And if the Cup, and if the Lip you press.

STANZA