The Mind
Quatrain 140
Translated by E. H. Whinfield (1883) · From The Quatrains (Whinfield)
The Mind
When Allah yoked the courses of the sun,
And launched the Pleiades their race to run,
My lot was fixed in fate's high chancery;
Then why blame me for wrong that fate has done?
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Khayyam, Omar. “Quatrain 140.” Translated by E. H. Whinfield. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/omar-khayyam/139/.
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Khayyam, Omar. “Quatrain 140.” Translated by E. H. Whinfield. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/omar-khayyam/139/.
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