In his 1907 book “William Godwin and Mary Wollstonecraft,” Ukrainian-American doctor Victor Robinson wrote:

“In medieval times there lived in Persia a poet by the name of Omar Khayyam. I think the best thing he ever said was this, tho I admit it is hard to choose…

Ah Love! Could you and I with him conspire

To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,

Would not we shatter it to bits—and then

Remould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire?”

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