Omar Khayyám: Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! The Nightingale that

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manusc — Omar Khayyám

Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! That Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close! The Nightingale that in the Branches sang, Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!

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