Topic: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

[Nichi]

Complete with illustrations by Edmund Dulac...

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/35260/35260-h/35260-h.htm

Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse—and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness—
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

[Michael]

That is my favourite of the numerous versions, both of his and others. It is such a beautiful and meaningful poem!