batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4540-l4595
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record_id: batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l4540-l4595
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
passage_locator:
label: XXXVII. / IN THE SECOND EDITION. / XXVIII. / XLIV.; lines 4540-4595
start: '4540'
end: '4595'
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 notes and quatrains on embracing the beloved or cypress
within a brief hour before being folded back into the Mother and dissolved; related
references emphasize bodily return to earth and mingling with the all. A later
quatrain contrasts wine, love, and abstinence with the Prophet's Paradise, hell,
and heaven, arguing that if lovers and drunkards are excluded, paradise or heaven
would be empty.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A speaker urges an addressee to embrace the waving Cypress within a brief
hour of grace.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The quatrain says the Mother will fold the addressee back into her arms and
dissolve the addressee in a final embrace.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:3
text: A cited parallel says all bodies will be hidden in the earth.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:4
text: A cited parallel describes rosy cheeks, grasping a wine cup, using each bodily
part, and those parts being mingled with the all.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:5
text: A quatrain says that if the Vine and the Love-abjuring Band stand in the Prophet's
Paradise, that paradise would be empty like the hollow of a hand.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:6
text: A cited parallel says drinking wine and keeping company with the beautiful
is better than the hypocrisy of the zealot.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:7
text: The cited parallels say that if lovers or drunken lovers are doomed to hell,
heaven will be unseen or bare.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker of XLIV
description: The voice urging an addressee to embrace the cypress before dissolution.
role_refs:
- role:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: addressee of XLIV
description: The person told to embrace the waving Cypress and later to be folded
back into the Mother.
role_refs:
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: waving Cypress
description: A cypress described as being embraced in the addressee's arms.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Mother
description: A personified mother who folds the addressee back into her arms and
dissolves the addressee in a last embrace.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: drunkards or drunken lovers
description: Figures described in cited quatrains as said to be destined for hell.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: lover
description: A figure paired with the drunkard and said to be doomed to hell in
a conditional statement.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: zealot
description: A figure whose hypocrisy is contrasted with wine-drinking and company
with the beautiful.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Love-abjuring Band
description: A group named as abstaining from love and imagined as standing in the
Prophet's Paradise.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Prophet
description: The Prophet is invoked through the phrase 'Prophet's Paradise.'
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
roles:
- id: role:1
label: exhorting speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The voice gives imperatives to the addressee.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:2
label: mortal addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The addressee has a brief hour and is later folded back and dissolved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:3
label: embraced beloved or cypress figure
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The cypress is the object the addressee is told to embrace.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:4
label: returning or enclosing mother figure
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The Mother folds the addressee back into her arms.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: condemned lover-drinker
assigned_to:
- fig:5
- fig:6
basis: The cited quatrains state conditionally that lovers and drunkards are doomed
to hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: role:6
label: abstinent or hypocritical religious figure
assigned_to:
- fig:7
- fig:8
basis: The zealot and Love-abjuring Band are contrasted with wine and love.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- id: role:7
label: paradise-associated prophetic figure
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The passage refers to the Prophet's Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: waving Cypress
literal_form: cypress tree-like figure embraced by the addressee
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: Mother's arms
literal_form: maternal arms and final embrace
associated_figures:
- fig:4
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:3
label: earth as hiding place for bodies
literal_form: earth containing hidden bodies
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: sym:4
label: wine cup
literal_form: cup grasped in the hand
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: sym:5
label: Vine
literal_form: vine named alongside the Love-abjuring Band
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:6
label: Prophet's Paradise
literal_form: paradise imagined as potentially empty
associated_figures:
- fig:8
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:7
label: hell and heaven
literal_form: hell as destination for drunkards or lovers; heaven as unseen or bare
associated_figures:
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- ev:6
- id: sym:8
label: hollow or palm of the hand
literal_form: empty hand used as comparison for empty paradise or bare heaven
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:6
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Embrace before dissolution
summary: The speaker urges the addressee to embrace the cypress during a short period
of grace before the Mother folds the addressee back into her arms and dissolves
the addressee.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Return of bodies to earth and all
summary: The cited parallels state that bodies will be hidden in earth and that
bodily parts will be mingled with the all.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: scene:3
label: Empty paradise if lovers and drinkers are condemned
summary: The quatrain and cited parallels imagine paradise or heaven as empty if
wine, love, lovers, or drunkards are excluded or condemned.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
- fig:6
- fig:7
- fig:8
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
- sym:6
- sym:7
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: dissolution into mother or all
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
basis: The passage describes being folded back into the Mother's arms, dissolved
in a final embrace, and bodily parts mingling with the all.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy label is interpretive; the passage gives poetic dissolution
and mingling but does not explicitly define a doctrinal union.
- id: motif:2
label: bodily return to earth
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A cited parallel says the time will come when all bodies will be hidden in
the earth.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
confidence: high
cautions: No rebirth component is stated in this passage.
- id: motif:3
label: wine and love opposed to ascetic judgment
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The passage contrasts wine, love, lovers, and drunkards with the zealot,
hell, heaven, and the Prophet's Paradise.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: medium
cautions: The divine judgment taxonomy applies to heaven and hell language, but
the quatrains are framed as conditional or polemical statements.
- id: motif:4
label: paradise emptied by exclusion of lovers and drinkers
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The quatrain says the Prophet's Paradise would be empty if the Vine and Love-abjuring
Band stood there, and the parallels say heaven would be unseen or bare if lovers
and drunkards are doomed to hell.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
confidence: high
cautions: This is a poetic argument rather than a narrative event.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage states that the sentiment of quatrain XLIV is traceable in C.
189 and C. 195.
claim_level: same_function
target: C. 189 and C. 195 parallels within the cited Khayyam quatrain tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage gives bibliographic comparison and short translated parallels,
but not the full originals or a detailed philological argument.
- id: claim:2
claim: The passage states that quatrain LXV is inspired by O. 127 and C. 60, and
that FitzGerald was reminded of it by N. 64, identified as C. 60.
claim_level: same_motif
target: O. 127 and C. 60/N. 64 parallels on lovers, drunkards, hell, and empty heaven
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- ev:5
- ev:6
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The relation is reported by the edition's note; the passage does not
independently demonstrate textual transmission beyond the cited parallels.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: lines 4546-4551, XLIV
quote_or_summary: The speaker tells the addressee to embrace the 'waving Cypress'
during a 'little hour of Grace' before the Mother folds and dissolves the addressee
in a last embrace.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:2
type: quote
locator: lines 4553-4558, note on C. 189
quote_or_summary: The note says the sentiment is traceable in C. 189; the cited
lines say to be happy because a time will come when all bodies are hidden in the
earth.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:3
type: quote
locator: lines 4562-4568, C. 195 parallel
quote_or_summary: A cited parallel describes sympathy with rosy cheeks, a hand grasping
the wine cup, and bodily parts being mingled with the all.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:4
type: quote
locator: lines 4574-4579, LXV
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says that if the Vine and Love-abjuring Band stand
in the Prophet's Paradise, that paradise would be empty like the hollow of a hand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:5
type: quote
locator: lines 4581-4588, O. 127 parallel
quote_or_summary: The note says LXV is inspired by O. 127; the cited parallel prefers
wine and company with the beautiful to zealot hypocrisy and says that if lover
and drunkard are doomed to hell, no one will see heaven.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
- id: ev:6
type: quote
locator: lines 4591-4595, C. 60 / N. 64 parallel
quote_or_summary: The note identifies N. 64 as C. 60; the cited parallel says drunkards
are said to go to hell and that if drunken lovers are doomed to hell, heaven will
be bare like the palm of a hand.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short excerpt summarized.
confidence:
extraction: high
motif_candidates: medium
comparison_claims: medium
notes: Literal extraction is straightforward from the translated quatrains and editorial
notes. Motif labels involving mystical union and judgment require interpretive
caution.
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: |-
No unavailable taxonomy symbol IDs were assigned; symbols are recorded descriptively where the available symbol list did not provide a supported match.
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