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Excerpt from In a Persian Garden: A Song-Cycle for Four Solo Voices, (Soprano, Contralto, Tenor and Bass), With Pianoforte Accompaniment; The Words Selected From the Rubaiyát of Omar Khayyám (Fitzgerald's Translation) Ah, not a drop that from our Cups we throw For Earth to drink of,1 but may steal below, To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden, far beneath, and long ago. 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.