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by Omar Khayyam
Excerpt from The Book of Omar and Rubáiýat: Being a Book of Miscellanies; Biographical, Historical, Bibliographical and Pictorial Notes on Omar Khayýam of Naishapur and His Inspired Quatrains Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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