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Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam (145) “my bewilderment”

Juan Cole 06/20/2012

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I was disturbed that
he brought me into being,
and nothing has grown 
through my life
like my bewilderment at it.
We’re forced to depart,
and don’t even know what
the point is 
of all this coming 
and going and being.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 145

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Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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