Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I lea… - Edward FitzGerald

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Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old.

Edward FitzGerald

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About Edward FitzGerald

Edward Marlborough FitzGerald (31 March 1809 – 14 June 1883), born Edward Marlborough Purcell, was an English writer, best known as the poet of the first and most famous English translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.

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Birth Name: Edward Marlborough Purcell

Alternative Names: Edward Fitzgerald • Edward Purcell • Edward Fitz Gerald • Edward Marlborough Fitzgerald • Edward Fitz-Gerald • Fitzgerald • Edward Marlborough FitzGerald • E. F. G

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Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits — and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!

A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread — and Thou Beside me singing in the Wilderness — Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say; Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

Leave well — even 'pretty well' — alone: that is what I learn as I get old. - Edward FitzGerald

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