E.H. WHINFIELD
NOTE
The text has been framed from a comparison of the following authorities:—
I. The Bodleian manuscript, No. 140 of the Ouseley Collection,
containing 158 quatrains.
II. The Calcutta Asiatic Society's manuscript, No. 1548, containing
516 quatrains.
III. The India Office manuscript, No. 2420, ff. 212 to 267, containing
512 quatrains.
IV. The Calcutta edition of 1252 a.h., containing 438 quatrains,
with an appendix of 54 more, which the editor says he found in a
Bayaz, or common-place book, after the others had been printed.
V. The Paris edition of M. Nicolas, containing 464 quatrains.
VI. The Lucknow lithographed edition, containing 763 quatrains.
VII. A fragment of an edition begun by the late Mr. Blochmann,
containing only 62 quatrains.
QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM
At dawn a cry through all the tavern shrilled,
«Arise my brethren of the revellers' guild,
That I may fill our measure, full of wine
Or e'er the measure of our days be filled.»
1. Bl. C. L. N. A. I. J. Bl. considers this quatrain Mystical.