Red Book Rubaiyat

12

A book of Verse underneath the Bough,

A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread--and Thou

Beside me singing in the Wilderness--

Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

from "Red Book Rubaiyat"

Omar Kyayyam

rendered into English verse

by Edward Fitzgerald

Arranged and illustrated

by Linda Carter Holman

Copyrighted by Linda Carter Holman

Red Shoe Publishing

2009