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Omar Khayyam (2) “Who brought you here?”

Juan Cole 10/04/2012

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Tonight, who  brought you, drunk,
here to me?
From behind the curtain, 
who brought you here?–
to someone who was on fire
because of your absence–
someone who, like the wind,
sought you everywhere!
Who brought you here?

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 2

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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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