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Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - Leaden Metal into Gold
Identifier
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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A description of the experience
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [trans Fitzgerald]
And lately by the Tavern Door agape
Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape
Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulders; and
He bid me taste of it; and 'twas – the Grape!
The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two and Seventy jarring Sects confute
The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice
Life's leaden Metal into Gold transmute
The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword