Ah, fill the Cup: -- What boots it to repeat
How time is slipping underneath our Feet.
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• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 37, first published 1859

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Better be [jocund]1 with the fruitful Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit.

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• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 56, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 54, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 54, first published 1868

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¹ second edition: "merry"

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Ah Love! could [thou]1 and I with [Fate]2 conspire
To grasp the sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would [not we]3 shatter it to bits -- and then
Remould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

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• by Edward Fitzgerald (1809 - 1883), no title, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, First Edition, no. 73, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Second Edition, no. 108, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Third Edition, no. 99, appears in The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, Fourth Edition, no. 99, first published 1859

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¹ Houseley, Lehmann: "you"
² third and fourth editions, Houseley: "Him"
³ Houseley, Lehmann: "we not"

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