Show new verses of omar ar unearthed early has more quatrains Qua trains than han fitzgerald translation washington another book ol of verses to be rend underneath the bough with a loot loaf of brend bread nud a thermos bottlo bottle of well lemonade may bo be the product of the discovery d c in a calcutta booksh g ea r volume of amp lay ya I 1 na hubaly Ruba lyal if ago 11 1 ai moro more quatrains qua trains th ann erald translated only the lie volume in fo the Bod lelan library at oxford Is older than the newly found illustrated manuscript which according to news from india bears theadate the date 1505 omar the tentmaker fast in ills his gravo grave on which tile the peach petals blow at Nisha pur continues to be despite the gap of years persian Per sias best ambassador to spearing coun tries says a bulletin c the national geographic society yet ho he who sang I 1 think that nover never blow so BO rod red the ati rose as a where some burled caesar bled bied la Is little known as a poet in his own country abu abd 11 l fath omar son of ibraham the tentmaker Tent of Nisim pur for such was his name dome holds in persia some modest fame as a lathema bician an ancient wise man who about tile the time william the conqueror was conquering E england assisted in revising the persian calendar but omar a poet I 1 we have far better poets than he tile the Per persians slabs say tile the western world will never believe it it reasons for persian neglect if omar khayyam Is a poet without honor in his own country there are certain geographic reasons for the neglect ct as well as for his acceptance by moderns persians were in omars day and are to this day dominated by mohammedan mysticism which omar who was as a doubter doubler and a realist no as most twentieth century scientists flouted with verses omar verses ran against the UM tide of opinion in persia of his day and still run against the tide lie he was a heretic hla his verses ire are still heretical so persia continues to think that omar as a poet was a 0 good much of the geography the he climate the flowers the products and customs cus of persia hersla can bo be found inlaid in einars verses which have become so familiar to english re readers aaers ills his most famous quatrain A A dook book of 0 verges verain underneath creade t jhb A jun jug of wins wine a loaf of dl th u dealda mt me lna n te Wildern fol oh wilderness t I 1 TZ ignall picture of what passes for a and the last hist word in holiday enjoyment throughout moslem north africa the near east and Persia excepting the wine chichis chis still forbidden from tripoli to cairo to bagdad to teheran and tashkent Tash kent miles a bough and tile the shade it gives are luxuries in a land of eternal sun gross is 8 even rarer than trees no such thing as nu an american or english lawn exists so when a holiday comes the people leave the seclusion of their towns wander down to tile the bank of a stream where there may be ba a few trees and there star scattered on the grass grase 1 as omar writes they rest and gossip women picnic in cemeteries often the greenest spots are the cemeteries to visit the graves women of tile the harem are sometimes permitted to go out once a week an opportunity port unity they seldom pass by not so much to pay tribute to the alie dead as for an outing under the trees graveyards are the favorite picnic grounds of the near kast east omar sings of roses tulips and the hyacinths of the garden the peach find and the pear trees in bloom tile the brushes of artists have added some very definite ideas for us about persian gardens yet a traveler to per sla sin reports that although he searched high rind and low he be tins has yet to find a persian garden on that dry plateau there Is no such thing as a girden g irden in the american or english sense A garden to a persian Is a grove of trees kept alive by irrigation ditches that receive precious water from some creek fed by mountain snows persia Is uke like a sa saucer ticen elgh mountains rim it close to the rim din rise the principal cities hugging the mountains because of their dependence on the highlands for water the cen ter ler Is an upland desert 1 the dead heart of persia crossing Cross Wg persia r requires crossing the desert so to a parched and sun beaten traveler any bit of green lie he comes upon toward tile the end of its ills journey seems a vision of paradise a garden of unparalleled beauty to be praised and exalted to lo poetry |