Omar Khayyam (168) “neither servants nor masters”

Posted on 06/26/2012 by Juan Cole

In this life, all those who have 
half a piece of bread
and a resting place 
in which to nest;
who are neither servants
nor masters of others–
let them rejoice,
for their world is a happy one.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 168

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