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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This sea of Being has emerged from hidden depths,
But how, that's a pearl of scholarship no one has pierced.
Each scholar has conjectured idly on the subject,
But none can describe how the matter actually rests.
