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Rubai · 11th–12th centuryDraft

The World Will Remain

Omar Khayyamخیام

ای بس که نباشیم و جهان خواهد بود

How long we shall not be, and the world will still be,

نی نام زما و نی نشان خواهد بود

with no name of ours and no trace left behind.

زین پیش نبودیم و نبد هیچ خلل

Before this we were not, and nothing was amiss;

زین پس چو نباشیم همان خواهد بود

after this, when we are not, it will be the same.

Translation
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Source
Draft translation from the Ganjoor text

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