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Omar Khayyam wrote some extraordinarily beautiful poetry way back in the 12th century. His Rubaiyat can be said to be Philosophy structured in a song.What were the themes in the Rubaiyat-Hedonism? or Agnosticism ? or Theism ? Some examples will indicate what I mean. Two first stanzas apply particularly to RHP Spirituality Forum.
Firstly:
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and About: but evermore
came out by the same door wherein I went.
And the second one:
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow
and with mine own hand wrought to make it grow
And this was all the harvest that I reaped
" I came like water and like wind I go"
And a particularly moving one but involving God also:
Ah Love ! Could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire
Would we not shatter it to bits--and then
remould it nearer to the heart's desire
Or an agnostic thought:
There was the door to which I found no key
There was the veil through which I might not see
Some little talk awhile of me and thee
there was --- and then no more of thee and me
Comments please.
Firstly:
Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and About: but evermore
came out by the same door wherein I went.
And the second one:
With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow
and with mine own hand wrought to make it grow
And this was all the harvest that I reaped
" I came like water and like wind I go"
And a particularly moving one but involving God also:
Ah Love ! Could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry scheme of things entire
Would we not shatter it to bits--and then
remould it nearer to the heart's desire
Or an agnostic thought:
There was the door to which I found no key
There was the veil through which I might not see
Some little talk awhile of me and thee
there was --- and then no more of thee and me
Comments please.