Tao Te Ching

“Omar’s Epicurean Audacity of Thought and Speech caused him to be regarded askance in his own Time [and] he has never been popular in his own Country… hopeless Necessity flung his own Genius and Learning with a a bitter or humorous jest into the general Ruin”

— Edward Fitzgerald 1809 – 1883 CE
First and most famous Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam poet/translator