Omar Khayyám – wilderness is paradise now

Yes yes yes!!! you!! Give me your hand, I’ll bring the wine!

“A book of verses underneath the bough
A flask of wine, a loaf of bread and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness
And wilderness is paradise now.”
― Omar Khayyám,

Translated by Edward Fitzgerald

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