As Trump threatens to bomb-bomb-bomb Iran (or not), let’s pause to appreciate perhaps the most celebrated words to emerge from that great culture:
A book of verses underneath the bough,
A loaf of bread, a jug of wine and thou
Beside me singing in the wilderness.
Ah, wilderness is paradise enow!
Today was the birthday of the great 11th century Persian astronomer, mathematician and poet Omar Khayyam, born in Nishapur (in what is now northeastern Iran). A thousand years later, his words are still remembered.
Trump’s won’t be.