Wake! For the ruddy ball has taken flight

Wake! For the ruddy ball has taken flight. Francis Thompson
In: A Century of Parody and Imitation by Walter Jerrold and R. M. Leonard.
London : Milford; Oxford University Press, 1913. pp. 379-381.

18 quatrains

Potter 1159

Also in: Cornhill Magazine, 7/1908
A selection of 6 quatrains was published as “Rime o’ bat of O my sky-em” in The Australasian (Melbourne, Vic. : 1864 – 1946), 15 Aug 1908 Page 51

Omar Khayyam and the transcience of life

Omar Khayyam and the transcience of life. Carus, Paul. The Open Court, XXVII (nr. 11) (1913) 690 (November), pp. 680–682

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Edward Fitzgerald’s translation made a deep impression upon the literary circles of all English-speaking nations, and no wonder, for they present a great truth which is not so much an expression of agnosticism as a description of the transiency of life. The same truth has been stated in various forms again and again by thinkers of almost all periods and nations of the world. The difference in the statements, however, is not due to a disagreement as to the nature of facts, but to the difference in attitude of different people.