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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám Jr. Translated from the Original Bornese into English Verse by Wallace Irwin author of "The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum," with eight illustrations and cover design by Gelett Burgess Introduction Since the publication of Edward Fitzgerald's classic translation of the Rubaiyat in 1851 - or rather since its general popularity several years later - poets minor and major have been rendering the sincerest form of flattery to the genius of the Irishman who b