Omar Khayyam (442) “I wish there were a place to rest…”

Posted on 07/18/2012 by Juan Cole

I wish there were a place to rest
or that this long, long road would end;
and that a hundred thousand years 
from now, there were a hope that from 
the earth we’d bloom to breathe again.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 442

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§ 2 Responses to “Omar Khayyam (442) “I wish there were a place to rest…””

  • Eleanor says:
    07/18/2012 at 10:50 am

    I come here for the political and social commentary, but I love the poetry. It’s wonderful balance for the news, which is often not good.

  • esteban says:
    07/18/2012 at 1:50 pm

    -
    oh, the earth will be here
    we’re the ones that won’t

    if we continue
    with this nonsense
    -