...his age. Khwájah Nizámi of Samarcand, who was one of his pupils, relates the following story : " I often used to hold conversations with my teacher,...the words he spake, but I knew that his were no idle words.3 1 Though all these, like our Sniiihs, Archers, Millers, Fletchers, etc., may simply retain...

...their splendid poetic expression. It is said by one of his pupils : "I often used to hold conversation with my teacher, Omar Khayyam, in a garden; and one...the words he spake, but I knew that his were no idle words. Years after, when I chanced to re-visit Naishdp1ir, I went to his final resting-place, and lo!...

...relates the following story : " I often used to hold conversations with my teacher, 'Omar Khayy&n, in a garden ; and one day he said to me, ' my tomb shall be in a spot, where the north-wind may scatter roses over it.' I wondered at the words he spoke, but I knew that his were no...