FITZGERALD, Edward
- See also his English adaptation of “
The Rubáiyát”
of Omar KHAYYAM:
https://www.lezenswaard.be/view/416/persian-khayyam-omar
On Anne Allen
The wind blew keenly from the Western sea,
And drove the dead leaves slanting from the tree--
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher saith--
Heaping them up before her Father's door
When I saw her whom I shall see no more--
We cannot bribe thee, Death.
She went abroad the falling leaves among,
She saw the merry season fade, and sung--
Vanity of vanities the Preacher saith--
Freely she wandered in the leafless wood,