Ancient Poems

Translated by Edward Fitzgerald                 1 Wake! For the Sun, who scattered into flight The Stars before him from the Field of Night,     Drives Night along with them from Heav’n and strikes The Sultán’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.                  2 Before the phantom of False morning died, Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,     “When …

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