This Caravan
این قافلهLife passes like a caravan; Khayyam says take the moment.
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The same print hung in each room of the house. Pick a room.
این قافله عمر عجب میگذرد
دریاب دمی که با طرب میگذرد
This caravan of life passes strangely by; seize the moment that passes in delight.
The story
In this quatrain attributed to Omar Khayyam, life is a caravan passing strangely by, and the listener is told to seize the moment that passes in delight. Scholars debate how many quatrains are truly his, so it is best read as part of the Khayyam tradition.
Persiahaus Studio set the first two lines in ink Nastaliq on a clay ground, over a white circle, inside a ruled frame with dark lapis stars at its corners. The wide format lets the lines travel, like the caravan they describe.