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Khayyam Rubaiyat
註釋Omar Khayyam was born in the year 1048 C.E., in the city of Nishapur in northern Persia (Iran). He was a polymath, scientist, philosopher and poet. He is called the Eastern Voltaire. He loved mathematics for exactness and purity. When he was puzzled by a math problem and could not find a way out, he wrote a poem. His poems are exact; they focus on a recurring riddle. His riddle is a type of poem that describes something without actually naming what it is, leaving the reader to guess. His conundrum is a light-hearted type of poem, which engages the reader. Rubaiyat means four parts, and each part takes you on a journey, each stanza is leaped forward as in this poem: 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.Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"