Omar Khayyam: Persian mathematician and poet, 1048 to 1131, known in English through Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.
Omar Khayyam · The source reads: “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!” · The most quoted quatrain of FitzGerald's Rubaiyat, an English poem made from medieval Persian materials rather than a translation of one verse.
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