Excerpt from Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam: The Astronomer-Poet of Persia Has fallen in grief's furnace and been suddenly burned The shears of Fate have cut the tent ropes of his life, And the broker of Hope has sold him for nothing 1' 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.