batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4247-l4305
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4247-l4305
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: XCII. / XCIII. / XCIV. / XCVI.; lines 4247-4305
start: '4247'
end: '4305'
translation: The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam
notes: Generated from OpenAI Batch run motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority;
human review required.
canonical_text:
quote: ''
summary: The passage presents quatrains on the disappearance of spring and youth,
the wish for a fountain or resting place after a long road and a future blossoming
like verdure, and the wish that an angel, recorder, writer, or God might alter
the Book or Roll of Fate, inscribe names differently, or erase a name.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Spring is described as vanishing with the Rose, and Youth's manuscript or
book is described as closing or being folded up.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:2
text: A nightingale or bird of joy associated with Youth sings in branches and then
flies away; the speaker says its origin and destination are unknown.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Spring is also described as fresh, purple, and winter-stricken.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A desert, fountain, fainting traveller, trampled herbage, road, place of repose,
earth, and verdure are presented in a wish for relief or renewed blossoming.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The quatrain imagines all people hoping to blossom again like verdure after
a hundred thousand years from the heart of earth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: A winged Angel is wished for to arrest the unfolding Roll of Fate before it
is too late.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: A stern Recorder or Writer is imagined as registering, inscribing, or obliterating
names in a Roll or Book of Fate.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: obs:8
text: The prose note gives a related source in which God is wished to alter the
world, cross a name from the Roll, or raise a condition from want to plenty.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: Youth
description: Youth appears as a sweet-scented manuscript or folded book and as the
name of the bird of joy.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: Nightingale / bird of joy
description: A bird sings in branches and is later described as the bird of joy
whose name is Youth.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: Fainting Traveller
description: A traveller in need is imagined springing toward a revealed fountain.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Winged Angel
description: An angel is imagined as able to arrest the unfolding Roll of Fate.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Recorder / Writer
description: A recorder or writer is imagined as registering, inscribing, or obliterating
names in the fate record.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: God
description: In the cited source rendering, God is the one wished to alter the world
and change the speaker's name or condition.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
roles:
- id: role:1
label: Personified vanishing youth
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: Youth is represented as a manuscript or book that closes and as a bird whose
coming and going are unknown.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: Departing songbird
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The bird sings in branches and then is described as having flown away or
passed without known arrival or departure.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:3
label: Seeker of relief
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The traveller is fainting and would spring toward even a dim glimpse of the
fountain.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:4
label: Desired supernatural intervener
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The speaker wishes an angel would stop the unfolding Roll of Fate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: Fate-record scribe
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: The Recorder or Writer is associated with registering, inscribing, or obliterating
entries in the Roll or Book of Fate.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: World-altering deity in source rendering
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The source rendering wishes that God would entirely alter the world and change
the speaker's record or condition.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: Spring
literal_form: Spring, fresh purple spring
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:2
label: Rose
literal_form: Rose vanishing with Spring
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: Youth as book or manuscript
literal_form: Youth's sweet-scented manuscript; book of youth folded up
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: Nightingale / bird of joy
literal_form: Nightingale in branches; bird of joy named Youth
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: sym:5
label: Winter-stricken spring
literal_form: Fresh purple spring is winter-stricken
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:6
label: Fountain in desert
literal_form: Desert of the Fountain; place from which a fainting traveller might
gain relief
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:7
label: Road and repose
literal_form: Place of repose; end of the road
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:8
label: Verdure blossoming from earth
literal_form: Trampled herbage springs; all hope to blossom again like verdure from
the heart of earth
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: sym:9
label: Roll or Book of Fate
literal_form: Unfolded Roll of Fate; Book of Fate; Roll containing a name
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
- id: sym:10
label: Name inscription or obliteration
literal_form: Names inscribed, enregistered, crossed from the Roll, or obliterated
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Lament for vanished spring and youth
summary: The speaker laments that spring, the rose, youth, and the nightingale or
bird of joy pass away, with their coming and going unknown.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
- sym:3
- sym:4
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: scene:2
label: Wish for fountain, repose, and renewed blossoming
summary: The speaker wishes for a revealed fountain or place of repose at the end
of the road and imagines renewed growth like herbage or verdure after long duration
in the earth.
figure_refs:
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:4
- id: scene:3
label: Wish to alter the fate record
summary: The speaker wishes an angel, writer, recorder, or God would alter the fate
record by registering names differently, inscribing a fairer leaf, obliterating
a name, crossing it from the roll, or raising the speaker's condition.
figure_refs:
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Seasonal transience of youth
taxonomy_refs:
- seasonal_cycle
basis: Spring, rose, youth, bird-song, and winter-stricken spring are used to frame
the passing of youth and joy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: The passage emphasizes loss and transience more than a complete cyclical
return in this quatrain.
- id: motif:2
label: Hoped-for rebirth from earth
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
- resurrection
basis: The source rendering hopes that after a hundred thousand years people might
blossom again like verdure from the heart of earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: medium
cautions: The wording is framed as a wish or hope, not as a narrated completed resurrection.
- id: motif:3
label: Traveller seeking life-giving water
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: A fainting traveller in a desert longs for even a dim glimpse of a fountain
and relief.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage does not explicitly define the traveller's journey as mystical;
the motif assignment is based on the literal quest imagery.
- id: motif:4
label: Book or Roll of Fate altered by supernatural power
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage imagines an angel, recorder, writer, or God changing entries
in the Roll or Book of Fate, including obliteration or alteration of names.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- ev:7
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage concerns fate-recording and divine alteration; it does not
present a formal judgment scene.
comparison_claims: []
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: XCVI, lines 4247-4252
quote_or_summary: '"Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose! / That Youth''s
sweet-scented manuscript should close!" The nightingale in the branches has flown,
with its origin and destination unknown.'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: XCVI source rendering from C. 223, lines 4256-4261
quote_or_summary: The source rendering laments that the book of youth is folded
up, spring is winter-stricken, and the bird of joy named Youth came and went at
unknown times.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: summary
locator: XCVII, lines 4268-4273
quote_or_summary: The speaker wishes the Desert of the Fountain would yield even
a dim glimpse so a fainting traveller might spring toward it like trampled herbage
of the field.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: summary
locator: XCVII source rendering from C. 509, lines 4277-4282
quote_or_summary: The source rendering wishes for a place of repose or an end of
the road, and hopes that after a hundred thousand years all might blossom again
like verdure from the heart of earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: summary
locator: XCVIII, lines 4289-4294
quote_or_summary: The speaker wishes a winged angel would arrest the unfolding Roll
of Fate and make the stern Recorder register differently or obliterate the record.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: XCVIII second-edition form, lines 4298-4303
quote_or_summary: The alternate form wishes the world could be recreated before
the Book of Fate closes, so the Writer might inscribe names on a fairer leaf or
obliterate them.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:7
type: summary
locator: XCVIII source rendering from N. 457, lines 4307-4312 in supplied passage
quote_or_summary: The source rendering wishes God would entirely alter the world,
cross the speaker's name from the Roll, or raise the speaker's condition from
want to plenty.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: uncertain
notes: Extraction is based only on the supplied passage. Motif labels are cautious
because the passage is lyric and allusive rather than narrative.
reviewer_status:
status: needs_review
reviewer: ''
reviewed_at: ''
notes: Machine-generated draft from OpenAI Batch; not human-reviewed.
extracted_by: openai_batch:gpt-5.5
extracted_at: '2026-04-28'
notes: |-
The supplied passage locator label appears inconsistent with the visible passage headings; the passage text shows XCVI-XCVIII.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l4247-l4305
passage_sha256=d75eac06b005c7d8f57ebc0756c3de7739085dd8dfe018b93ad5558b9a621912