A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
Omar Khayyám (1048–1131; Persian: عمر خیام)
from the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, Translated by Edward FitzGerald
