First Line: SULTAN AND SLAVE ALIKE HAVE GONE THEIR WAY Last Line: SEVEN CENTURIES SINCE STILL CHARMS THE WISE TO-DAY. Subject(s): OMAR KHAYYAM (1048-1122);
SULTAN and Slave alike have gone their way With Bahram Gur, but whither none may say; Yet he who charmed the wise at Naishapur Seven centuries since still charms the wise to-day.