" Readers of this work are exhorted to "take the cash, and let the credit go" and are informed that humans are "no other than a moving row/of (*) magic shadow-shapes that come and go.
Some source material for this work is now unverifiable because of a manuscript that was lost in Calcutta. The narrator of this work is visited by "an angel shape/bearing a vessel on his shoulder." In one section, this work criticizes religious thought by noting that the "revelations of devout" are "all but stories." Readers of this work are exhorted to "take the cash, and let the credit go" and are informed that humans are "no other than a moving row/of (*) magic shadow-shapes that come and go." This work's praise of alcohol begins in its twelfth section, which in this work's translation by Edward Fitzgerald requests "a jug of wine, a loaf of bread--and thou." For 10 points, identify this collection of quatrains by Omar Khayyam.
Some source material for this work is now unverifiable because of a manuscript that was lost in Calcutta.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam