The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Cantonese (魯拜集 粵文譯本)

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in Cantonese: Omar Khayyam’s The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, translated into Cantonese from the original.

Original author: Omar Khayyam. Original title: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Translated into Cantonese from the English text (the work was first written in Persian).

一千年前，波斯有個做天文同數學嘅人，喺紙邊寫低一啲四行詩：酒、玫瑰、塵土、命。佢生前冇出過詩集。八百年後，一個英國人費茲傑羅執起佢啲詩，譯成英文，就成咗英語世界最多人背得出嘅詩。

《魯拜集》講嘅嘢好簡單，亦都好狼：天堂同地獄，你邊個見過？聖人同智者拗咗一世，最後張嘴都畀塵土塞實。既然係噉，斟滿杯啦：趁玫瑰未謝，趁時間嗰隻雀仔仲未飛走。

「一卷詩書，攤開喺樹枝下嘅石頭，／一壺酒、一嚿麵包，仲有你坐喺我左右……／噉嘅荒野，就已經係樂園喇，真係夠！」

《魯拜集》全本用廣東話寫：費茲傑羅第五版一百零一首、第一版七十五首，一百七十六首全收，一首都冇刪，AABA 押韻照押粵音。

呢本書譯成中文已經超過一百年，郭沫若、黃克孫、孟祥森一路譯落嚟，用嘅都係書面語。呢個譯本就用粵文寫。

About this edition: translated from the English text of Project Gutenberg #246 (Edward FitzGerald, 1st and 5th editions). Paperback, 152 x 229 mm, 42 pages, published by Colombo Aspen. Cover: Muhammad Ali, A Feast in a Pavilion Setting, Cleveland Museum of Art 1920.1966.