https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 18 Sep 2026 20:55:42 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.1 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74954/ https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74954/#respond Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:08:11 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=74954 From God’s own hand this earthly vessel came,
He shaped it thus, be it for fame or shame;
If it be fair — to God be all the praise,
If it be foul — to God alone the blame.

Omar Khayyám (1048–1123) Persian poet, mathematician, philosopher, astronomer [عمر خیام]
Rubáiyát [رباعیات] [tr. Le Gallienne (1897), # 92]

Given Le Gallienne's paraphrasing, I am unable to align this with an original quatrain or other translations. ]]> https://wist.info/omar-khayyam/74954/feed/ 0 74954