Produced by Fritz Ohrenschall, Sania Ali Mirza and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's Notes: 1. Passages in italics are surrounded by _underscores_. 2. A Table of Contents has been created for this e-text where none existed in the original work. 3. Additional transcriber notes are set out at the end of this e-text and include information on punctuation, spelling and word variation. RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM RENDERED INTO ENGLISH VERSE BY _Edward Fitzgerald_ WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY _Edmund Dulac_ [Illustration] DE LUXE EDITION GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC. _Garden City, New York_ 1937 GARDEN CITY PUBLISHING CO., INC. CL RUBÁIYÁT OF OMAR KHAYYÁM PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CONTENTS BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE EDWARD FITZGERALD ix OMAR KHAYYÁM xxv THE FIRST EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION 39 THE SECOND EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION 79 THE FIFTH EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION 136 VARIATIONS IN THE THIRD EDITION OF THE TRANSLATION 190 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE QUATRAIN I p. 41 xxxviii QUATRAIN XI p. 46 xxxix QUATRAIN XXIV p. 52 54 QUATRAIN XLII p. 61 55 QUATRAIN LXXII p. 76 86 QUATRAIN XI p. 86 87 QUATRAIN XX p. 90 102 QUATRAIN XLIV p. 102 103 QUATRAIN LXXII p. 116 134 QUATRAIN XIV p. 145 135 QUATRAIN XXXVII p. 157 150 QUATRAIN XLI p. 159 151 BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE EDWARD FITZGERALD