``A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou, Beside me, singing in the Wilderness,`` is only one of the memorable verses from Edward FitzGerald\'s translations of poems by the 11th century Persian sage Omar Khayyam.
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This magnificent version of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam reproduces the edition published by Hodder & Stoughton of London in 1909, in which the timeless poems are accompanied by full-color images by Golden Age illustrator Edmund Dulac. ``A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou, Beside me, singing in the Wilderness,`` is only one of the memorable verses from Edward FitzGerald\'s translations of poems by the 11th century Persian sage Omar Khayyam