Plants that Changed History
Khayyam Quote
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Robb Vandaveer
Last updated: April 15, 2002
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The quote was taken from the Rubaiyat, a book of poems by Omar Khayyam, an astronomer and poet from the 12th century. His name means tent-maker in Arabic, the profession of his youth:
Khayyam, who stitched the tents of science,
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!'
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