PRELUDE

TOGerhardt HauptmannWITH THE PROFOUND ADMIRATIONOF THE AUTHOR

PRELUDE

“UP FROM EARTH’S CENTRE THROUGH THE SEVENTH GATEI ROSE, AND ON THE THRONE OF SATURN SATE;AND MANY A KNOT UNRAVELLED BY THE ROAD,BUT NOT THE MASTER KNOT OF HUMAN FATE.”[1]GREAT OMAR, THIS VAGUE TALE RETOLD CONTAINSPART ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE. ALLAH DEIGNSA LITTLE WISDOM THROUGH THE MOST UNWISE:THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE IN CHAINS.BEHOLD IT, WRITTEN FOR THE OCCIDENT.AH! WILL THEY SEE, ALTHOUGH THE VEIL IS RENT?OR WILL NOT ONE BELIEVER PAUSE BEFORETHE TATTERED GLORIES OF THE ORIENT?M. H. P.

“UP FROM EARTH’S CENTRE THROUGH THE SEVENTH GATEI ROSE, AND ON THE THRONE OF SATURN SATE;AND MANY A KNOT UNRAVELLED BY THE ROAD,BUT NOT THE MASTER KNOT OF HUMAN FATE.”[1]

“UP FROM EARTH’S CENTRE THROUGH THE SEVENTH GATE

I ROSE, AND ON THE THRONE OF SATURN SATE;

AND MANY A KNOT UNRAVELLED BY THE ROAD,

BUT NOT THE MASTER KNOT OF HUMAN FATE.”[1]

GREAT OMAR, THIS VAGUE TALE RETOLD CONTAINSPART ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE. ALLAH DEIGNSA LITTLE WISDOM THROUGH THE MOST UNWISE:THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE IN CHAINS.

GREAT OMAR, THIS VAGUE TALE RETOLD CONTAINS

PART ANSWER TO THE RIDDLE. ALLAH DEIGNS

A LITTLE WISDOM THROUGH THE MOST UNWISE:

THE SECRET OF THE UNIVERSE IN CHAINS.

BEHOLD IT, WRITTEN FOR THE OCCIDENT.AH! WILL THEY SEE, ALTHOUGH THE VEIL IS RENT?OR WILL NOT ONE BELIEVER PAUSE BEFORETHE TATTERED GLORIES OF THE ORIENT?

BEHOLD IT, WRITTEN FOR THE OCCIDENT.

AH! WILL THEY SEE, ALTHOUGH THE VEIL IS RENT?

OR WILL NOT ONE BELIEVER PAUSE BEFORE

THE TATTERED GLORIES OF THE ORIENT?

M. H. P.

[1]“The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam,” Ed. Fitzgerald, trans.

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