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Edmund Dulac's color plate for the 15th quatrain, from the 1909 Hodder & Stoughton edition of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.
Edmund Dulac's color plate for the 40th quatrain - the potter at his wheel - from the 1909 Hodder & Stoughton edition of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.
First Edition
Edward FitzGerald, First and Fifth editions (1859/1889) - English
Quatrain I
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