The Vine had struck a Fibre
Edmund J. Sullivan
1900-1
Photographic reproduction of pen and ink drawing
This illustration originally appeared in Fitzgerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and is here reproduced from Thorpe's E. J. Sullivan, p. 68.
The Vine had struck a Fibre; which
about
It clings my Being — let the Súfi flout;
Of my Base Metal may be filed a Key,
That shall unlock the Door he howls
without.
Scanned image and text by George P. Landow