Edmund Joseph Sullivan (1869-1933)
illustration for The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,1913

Though there are many MANY translations of varying accuracy, few of us will be able to read the original as it was intended, and I like the quote from one of the translators, who claimed that though his version was not a literal translation, "Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle."

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