Author: Fitzgerald
Cited by
- Gene Wolfe (1)
- IN: The Urth of the New Sun (1987) Science Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night
Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:
And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught
The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light.
FROM: Translate of Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám, (1859), Book, Iran