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The year of the Rubaiyat

              This was an occasion to celebrate

                Edward FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

             in the year that marked

  • publication of FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat 150 years ago

  • 200th anniversary of FitzGerald’s birth in 1809.                        

 Illustration with acknowledgement 

to Edmund Sullivan

Click here to see all the events that took place  to celebrate the anniversaries

 

FitzGerald’s Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

is still probably the best known poem in the world.

It has influenced millions of readers and writers.

It deserved a special celebration.

 

 

The moving finger writes, and having, writ, Moves on.

 

 

 

Oh come with old Khayyam, and leave the wise, To talk. 

One thing is certain that life flies.

 

Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days, 

Where destiny with men for pieces plays.

 

Here with a loaf of bread beneath the bough, 

A flask of wine, a book of verse - and Thou.

 

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