Omar Khayyam: “The elders and the newborns”
July 12th, 2012
The elders and the newborns trace
the footsteps of each other, and
it is the way of this world that
no one can live forever here.
They have departed and we’re on our way,
and they arrive again, and go again.
Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, Arberry 1949, 5
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