From The
Wine of Nishapur
Photographs by Shahrokh Golestan
Omar Khayyam poems translated by Karim Emami
Original caligraphy by Nassrollah Afje'i
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Even though I am blessed with good looks,
With a face fine as a tulip, and a body tall as a cypress,
I could not find out for what purpose the Painter of Pre-eternity
Has fashioned me so fancifully in the earth's Pleasure Dome.
