biteThe Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
poetry · Item 351

The Vine had struck a fiber: which about If clings my Being--let the Dervish flout; Of my Base metal may be filed a Key That shall unlock the Door he howls without.