The Sufistic Quatrains Of Omar Khayyam - LightNovelsOnl.com
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But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes.
STANZA
LXXII. In ed. 2 and the first draft of ed. 3:
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky.
In edd. 2 and 3:
As impotently rolls as you or I.
LXXIX. In ed. 2:
Pure Gold for what he lent us dross-allay'd.
Lx.x.xI. In ed. 2:
For all the Sin the Face of wretched Man Is black with--Man's Forgiveness give--and take!
Lx.x.xIII. In ed. 2:
And once again there gather'd a scarce heard Whisper among them; as it were, the stirr'd Ashes of some all but extinguisht Tongue Which mine ear kindled into living Word.
Lx.x.xIV. In ed. 2:
My Substance from the common Earth was ta'en, That He who subtly wrought me into Shape Should stamp me back to shapeless Earth again?
Lx.x.xV. In ed. 2
Another said--Why, ne'er a peevish Boy Would break the Cup from which he drank in Joy; Shall He that of His own free Fancy made The Vessel, in an after-rage destroy!
Lx.x.xVI. In ed. 2:
None answer'd this, but after silence spake.
Lx.x.xVII. In ed. 2:
Thus with the Dead as with the Living, _What?_ And _Why?_ so ready, but the _Wherefor_ not, One on a sudden peevishly exclaim'd, Which is the Potter, pray, and which the Pot?
STANZA
Lx.x.xVIII. In ed. 2:
Said one--Folks of a surly Master tell, And daub his Visage with the Smoke of h.e.l.l; They talk of some sharp Trial of us--Pis.h.!.+
He's a Good Fellow, and 'twill all be well.
In the first draft of ed. 3. the stanza begins:
Why, said another, Dismal people tell Of an old Savage who will toss to h.e.l.l The luckless Pots, etc.
Lx.x.xIX. In ed. 2:
Well, said another, Whoso will, let try.
XC. In ed. 2:
One spied the little Crescent all were seeking.
XCI. In ed. 2:
And wash my Body whence the Life has died.
XCIII. In ed. 2:
Have done my credit in Men's eye much wrong.
XCV. In ed. 2:
One half so precious as the ware they sell.
XCVII. In ed. 2:
Toward which the fainting Traveller might spring.
XCVIII. In ed. 2:
Oh if the World were but to re-create, That we might catch ere closed the Book of Fate, And make The Writer on a fairer leaf Inscribe our names, or quite obliterate!
XCIX. In ed. 2:
Ah Love! could you and I with Fate conspire.
C. In ed. 2:
But see! The rising Moon of Heav'n again Looks for us, Sweet-heart, through the quivering Plane: How oft hereafter rising will she look Among those leaves--for one of us in vain!
STANZA
CI. In ed. 2:
And when Yourself with silver Foot shall pa.s.s.
In the first draft of ed. 3 Foot is changed to step.
In ed. 3:
And in your blissful errand reach the spot.
