Note 60 — AN ANALYSIS OF EDWARD FITZGERALD'S TRANSLATION OF THE QUATRAINS OF OMAR KHAYYAM (Fifth Edition) By EDWARD HERON-ALLEN

Prof. Cowell's translation. V. appends a note, «Apparently the Essence of Life, the Ding an Sich of Kant, and the Wille of Schopenhauer, the Platonic Idea, the abiding type of the perishable individuality; possibly, however, the Vedantic ‹self› is meant.» For the word mah = moon at the commencement of the quatrain, some of the texts read badeh = wine.