Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia Rendered Into English Verse (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, the Astronomer-Poet of Persia: Rendered Into English Verse Sea: and it was from this mountain home he obtained that evil celebri amon the Crusaders as the old man OF the MO TA S. And spread terror through the Mo hammedan world and it is yet disputed whether thed Assassin. Which the have left m the language of mod ern Europe as their dark memorial. Is derived from the hashish. Or opiate of hem -leaves-the Indian bhang' with which they madden themselves to the sullen itch of oriental desperation. Or from the name of the foun of the dynasty. Whom we have seen in his quiet collegiate days. At Naishapur. One of the countless victims of the Assassin's dagger was nizam-ul-mulk himself. The old school-boy friend.' 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.