Penny Dreadfuls, 1900 · page 61 of 142
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, and the Salaman and Absal of Jami — page 61: what you’re looking at
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This is page 35 of a notes or commentary section, appearing near the end of a work (marked "FINIS"). The visible text discusses lunar observances and cites a quatrain attributed to Omar about the Old Moon fading and a new Moon arriving. The passage describes how the appearance of the New Moon is awaited with anxiety and greeted with celebration, and mentions a "Porter's Knot" that may be heard toward the cellar. The page consists entirely of prose commentary rather than narrative fiction or illustrations.
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rrr LE EE EL TN LS > rE ee NOTES. 35 for with the utmost Anxiety, aud hailed with Acclamation. Then it is that the Porter’s Knot may be heard—toward the Cellar. Omar has elsewhere a pretty Quatrain about the same Moon— “* Be of Good Cheer—the sullen Month will die, * And a young Moon requite us by and by : * Look how the Old one meagre, bent, and wan “ With Age and Fast, is fainting from the Sky !” of the New Moon (who rules their division of the Year), is looked FINIS, com OOO