Excerpt from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, the Astronomer Poet of Persia: Translated Into English Verse It is written in the chronicles of the ancients that this King of the Wise, Omar Khayyam, died at Naishapur in the year of the Hegira, 517 (a.d. In science he was unrivalled, -the very paragon of his age. Khwajah Nizami of Samarcand, who was one of his pupils, relates the follow ing story: I often used to hold conversations with my teacher, Omar Khayyam, in a garden; and one day he said to me, my tomb shall be in a spot, where the north wind may scatter roses over it.' I wondered at the words he spake, but I knew that his were no idle words. Years after, when I chanced to revisit N aishapur, I went to his final resting place, and 10! It was just outsides garden, and trees laden with fruit stretched their boughs over the garden wall, and dropped their flowers upon his tomb, so as the stone was hidden under them.' Thus far - without fear of Trespass - from the Calcutta Review. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.