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"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" by Edward FitzGerald

These verses are cherry-picked from all 5 editions, not in order. The pictures are mostly photographs of plates by Edmund Dulac. One word bothers me: "One thing is certain and the rest is lies" - nowhere else is he more than just a sceptic. "with pitfall and with gin" - a gin is a snare or trap.

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