"from the Rubaiyat - The Potter's House" Edward Fitzgerald

Fitzgerald himself called this a "transmogrification" rather than a translation: he made up much of it. There were five editions - this is from the first. The picture is photographed from my own old second edition - it's a plate by Edmund Dulac. Of course, we too are made of clay. This quatrain with AABA rhyme is now called a "rubaiyat". Another example among my videos is "B Negative"