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Amusement Couldn't resist this.

Greetings! Hello!

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Marc Joan

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Yes: great poem. Richard Burton did something similar -- the Kasidah -- but Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubaiyat is eternal.
 

Geoff

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Brings back memories. I remember "having to" read it as a schoolboy, "having to" because I hated reading anything remotely akin to poetry in those days. It made me realise there was more to poetry than I thought.
 

Steve C

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I was the same. I only read this guy because a long time ago girlfriend insisted on it and read him to me.
He liked his wine and good times did Omar and on top of his writing he was a renowned astrologer and mathematician
 
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