batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l6033-l6256
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source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
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label: E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR
KHAYYAM; lines 6033-6256
start: '6033'
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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: A sequence of quatrains reflects on the limits of mortal knowledge, the
veil before human sight, the vanity or unreality of the world, death, sleep, judgment,
divine secrets, love beyond formal religion, wine as a guide toward truth or loss
of self, and earthly images such as turf, stream, rose, cypress, moon, tomb, cup,
and book of love.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: Mortal knowledge is described as bounded by a veil, and the earth's dark bosom
is named as man's only home.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: The speaker surveys the faithless world and finds no moon or cypress comparable
to the addressed beloved.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Religious institutions are named as places where terrors of hell and lures
of heaven rule people, while those who master Allah's mysteries do not sow such
chaff in their hearts.
category: setting
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The visible world, speech, hearing, the four quarters of earth, and chambered
secrets are all called naught.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: A dreamed sage asks why life is consumed in sleep and calls sleep death's
twin-brother, adding that the tomb will provide enough sleep.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker says that knowing life's secrets below would entail knowing God's
secrets at death, but loss of self after death offers no knowledge if none is
held while alive.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: On a dreadful day, wrath rends the sky and darkness dims the stars; the speaker
seizes the Loved One by the skirt and questions the doom of guiltless ones.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: A divine secret is said not to be confided to knaves and not to be comprehended
by fools, leaving human hopes hidden.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: The cupbearer, fate's blows, lack of safe rest, and the bright wine-cup are
invoked; the wine-cup is said to place Truth at hand as a guide.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: The speaker says delight was once taken in wine and rose, but wine did not
accomplish the desired aim and was abandoned.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: Wine is requested; fortune's waking is called fleeting, days are compared
to quicksilver in swiftness, and youthful fire is said to subside like torrents.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Love's devotees are described as not Moslems and not Solomons, but ants of
low degree, with wan faces and tattered rags.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: obs:13
text: The speaker describes a law of pleasure, a creed of avoiding theological dispute,
and a marriage to Luck, who asks only for a gay heart.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:14
text: The speaker is an outcast from mosque and foe to church, questions the clay
from which God formed him, and claims no hopes above or joys below.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:15
text: Men's lusts are compared to house-dogs, foxes, hares, wolves, and tigers.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:16
text: Turf by a stream is compared to a cherub's lip or growth from the dust of
buried tulip cheeks, and the speaker warns not to tread it scornfully.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:17
text: Hearts illuminated by love, whether in mosque or synagogue, have their names
written in the book of love and are untroubled by heaven's hopes or hell's fears.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:18
text: A draught of wine is said to outweigh royal realms, throne, and crown, while
lovers' morning sighs are sweeter than zealots' groans.
category: object
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:19
text: The speaker says he will call on wine even if condemned for sin, likening
devotion to an idol and imagining death in drunkenness.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:19
- id: obs:20
text: The speaker says the purpose of drinking is not riot or transgression but
unconsciousness of self.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: obs:21
text: The speaker rejects claims that drunkards are doomed to hell and argues that
heaven would be empty if drinkers were excluded.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- id: obs:22
text: The final quatrain names months in which drinking is forbidden or claimed
by God and the Prophet, and asks whether Ramazan was made for thirsty man.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:22
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: First-person poetic voice reflecting on knowledge, death, religion,
love, and wine.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:9
- ev:20
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: beloved / Loved One
description: Addressed figure whose face and stateliness exceed the moon and cypress;
later called the Loved One seized by the skirt on the dreadful day.
role_refs:
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: sage in dream
description: A sage appearing in a dream who admonishes the speaker about sleep
and the tomb.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: cupbearer
description: A figure addressed when the speaker invokes wine, fate's blows, and
Truth at hand.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: love's devotees
description: Figures described as not Moslems or Solomons but ants of low degree,
with wan faces and tattered rags.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: men ruled by heaven and hell
description: People in synagogue, cloister, mosque, and school whose hearts are
ruled by hell's terrors and heaven's lures.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: those who master Allah's mysteries
description: Figures who have mastered Allah's mysteries and do not sow heaven-and-hell
chaff in their hearts.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Luck
description: Personified figure whom the speaker says he wedded and offered a dower,
asking only that his heart be gay.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
roles:
- id: role:1
label: questioning mortal speaker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker asks about knowledge, death, divine doom, and the clay from which
he was formed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:7
- ev:14
- id: role:2
label: wine-seeking aspirant to unconsciousness of self
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker requests or defends wine and states that drunkenness aims at
unconsciousness of self.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:11
- ev:20
- id: role:3
label: addressed beloved or divine beloved
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The beloved is praised in worldly imagery and later addressed as the Loved
One on the day of cosmic wrath.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:7
- id: role:4
label: dream admonisher
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The sage in a dream warns against consuming life in sleep.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:5
label: provider or addressee of wine
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: The cupbearer is invoked in relation to the bright wine-cup and Truth at
hand.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: role:6
label: humble devotees of love
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: They are explicitly called love's devotees and described as humble ants in
rags.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: role:7
label: religiously motivated multitude
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: Their hearts are ruled by hell's terrors and heaven's lures in formal religious
settings.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: knowers of Allah's mysteries
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: They are described as mastering Allah's mysteries and not relying on heaven-and-hell
inducements.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:9
label: personified fortune spouse
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Luck is personified as a spouse who accepts a gay heart rather than a dower.
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: veil before mortal knowledge
literal_form: veil bounding mortal ken
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: sym:2
label: earth's dark bosom and tomb
literal_form: earth's dark bosom; tomb as place of sleep
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:5
- id: sym:3
label: heaven and hell as religious incentives
literal_form: hell's terrors and heaven's lures
associated_figures:
- fig:6
- fig:7
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:17
- ev:21
- id: sym:4
label: naught-world
literal_form: world, words, hearing, earth's four quarters, and chamber secrets
called naught
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: sym:5
label: sleep as death's twin
literal_form: sleep called death's twin-brother
associated_figures:
- fig:3
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: sym:6
label: riven sky and dimmed stars
literal_form: sky rent by wrath and stars dimmed by darkness
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:2
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: sym:7
label: divine secret
literal_form: secret withheld from knaves and beyond fools' comprehension
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: sym:8
label: wine-cup as guide to Truth
literal_form: bright wine-cup standing between speaker and cupbearer
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- annihilation_union
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:20
- id: sym:9
label: wine and rose
literal_form: wine and rose as objects of delight
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:11
- id: sym:10
label: ants of low degree
literal_form: love's devotees compared to ants rather than Solomons
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- id: sym:11
label: clay of formation
literal_form: clay from which God formed the speaker
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: sym:12
label: animal figures for lusts
literal_form: house-dogs, foxes, hares, wolves, and tigers
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:13
label: turf by the stream
literal_form: turf fringing the margin of the stream, linked with dust of buried
tulip cheeks
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs:
- water
- death_rebirth
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: sym:14
label: book of love
literal_form: book of love containing names of hearts illuminated by love
associated_figures:
- fig:5
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
- wisdom
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: sym:15
label: royal power outweighed by wine
literal_form: realm of Tus, throne of Kobad, crown of Kai Kawus outweighed by one
draught
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: sym:16
label: self-loss through wine
literal_form: drunkenness undertaken to attain unconsciousness of self
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs:
- annihilation_union
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Veil of mortal knowledge
summary: Human knowledge is limited by a veil, and earthly death or burial is framed
as the human dwelling.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Beloved beyond moon and cypress
summary: The speaker surveys the world and declares no moon or cypress equals the
beloved's brightness and stateliness.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Religious institutions and inner mysteries
summary: Formal religious settings are associated with heaven and hell as motivations,
while those who know Allah's mysteries reject those inducements.
figure_refs:
- fig:6
- fig:7
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: World declared naught
summary: The speaker declares perceived world, speech, hearing, earth's extent,
and hidden secrets to be nothing.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: scene:5
label: Dream warning against sleep
summary: A sage appears in dream and warns that sleep, likened to death, should
not consume life before the tomb.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:6
label: Questioning the Loved One on the dread day
summary: At a cosmic day of wrath and darkened stars, the speaker clings to the
Loved One and asks why guiltless ones are doomed.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:6
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: scene:7
label: Wine-cup and Truth
summary: The speaker addresses the cupbearer, accepts fate's blows and instability,
and says the bright wine-cup gives Truth at hand to guide them.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: scene:8
label: Wine, desire, and self-unconsciousness
summary: The speaker alternately abandons wine when it does not accomplish desire
and later explains drunkenness as a means to unconsciousness of self.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:8
- sym:9
- sym:16
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- ev:20
- id: scene:9
label: Love outside formal identities
summary: Love's devotees are described as humble and poor, while loving hearts in
mosque or synagogue are written in the book of love and freed from heaven-and-hell
anxiety.
figure_refs:
- fig:5
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
- sym:14
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
- ev:17
- id: scene:10
label: Turf from buried beauty
summary: Turf beside a stream is imagined as linked to buried cheeks and is not
to be trodden with scorn.
figure_refs: []
symbol_refs:
- sym:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: Veiled human knowledge before hidden reality
taxonomy_refs:
- forbidden_knowledge
- wisdom
basis: The passage states that mortal knowledge is bounded by a veil and repeatedly
treats secrets of life, God, and the world as inaccessible or withheld.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:6
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: The passage is reflective lyric rather than narrative myth; the motif
is conceptual rather than event-based.
- id: motif:2
label: World as nothing or illusion
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: A quatrain explicitly declares the visible world, human utterance, hearing,
earth's quarters, and inner secrets to be naught; the editor glosses this as illusion.
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
confidence: high
cautions: The word 'Maya' appears in an editorial note, not as part of the quatrain
itself.
- id: motif:3
label: Sleep as death's sibling and tomb as final sleep
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: A dreamed sage calls sleep death's twin-brother and warns that the tomb will
provide sufficient sleep.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: high
cautions: The passage does not narrate rebirth; the taxonomy reference is limited
to death imagery.
- id: motif:4
label: Apocalyptic judgment scene with cosmic disturbance
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The dread day includes wrath rending the sky, darkness dimming stars, and
the speaker questioning the Loved One about doomed innocents.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
confidence: high
cautions: The scene is compressed into lyric address and does not give a full judgment
narrative.
- id: motif:5
label: Wine as mystical guide toward Truth and self-loss
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- annihilation_union
basis: The wine-cup is said to place Truth at hand, and another quatrain says drunkenness
aims at unconsciousness of self rather than transgression.
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- ev:20
confidence: high
cautions: The passage also includes ambivalent lines about abandoning wine, so the
wine motif is not uniformly affirmative.
- id: motif:6
label: Love transcending religious institutions and afterlife incentives
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: Love-lit hearts in mosque or synagogue are written in the book of love and
are unvexed by heaven's hopes or hell's fears; masters of Allah's mysteries likewise
reject heaven-and-hell chaff.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:17
confidence: high
cautions: The beloved is not always explicitly identified as divine in the quatrains
themselves.
- id: motif:7
label: Buried human beauty returning as turf or flowers
taxonomy_refs:
- death_rebirth
basis: Turf beside the stream is imagined as growth from the dust of buried tulip
cheeks, prompting reverent treatment of the ground.
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage gives a poetic image of growth from remains, not a developed
resurrection narrative.
- id: motif:8
label: Humility of love's devotees through Solomon and ants image
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: Love's devotees are described as ants rather than Solomons, supported by
an editorial note pointing to the Solomon and ants story in the Koran.
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
confidence: medium
cautions: The comparison depends partly on the editor's note; the quatrain itself
uses the contrast briefly.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The passage itself links the sleep/death image to a Greek epic formulation
by noting Homer's phrase for sleep as death's kinsman.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Homeric sleep as brother or kinsman of death
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The support is an editorial note rather than a developed comparison
in the poem.
- id: claim:2
claim: The cosmic judgment image is explicitly connected by the note to Koran 82:1,
suggesting a shared apocalyptic sky-rending motif within Islamic scriptural reception.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Koranic apocalyptic rending of the sky
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: Only a citation is supplied; no extended scriptural passage is quoted
here.
- id: claim:3
claim: The Solomon-and-ants contrast is explicitly connected by the note to Koran
27:18, supporting a nearby-corpus allusion to the Solomon and ants story.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Koranic Solomon and the ants
evidence_refs:
- ev:12
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The quatrain uses the image for humility; the full Koranic narrative
function is not present in the passage.
- id: claim:4
claim: The note compares the love-light theme with Hafiz, indicating a Persian lyric/Sufi
parallel in which love is associated with the Beloved's light.
claim_level: same_function
target: Hafiz Ode 79 love and the Beloved's face
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is supplied by the editor and only one short Hafiz line
is referenced.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: summary
locator: quatrain 47, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Mortal ken is bounded by a veil; earth's dark bosom is man's only
home.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized with short phrase.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: quatrain 48, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The speaker surveys the world and finds no moon or cypress equal
to the addressed figure.
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: quatrain 49 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Synagogue, cloister, mosque, and school are ruled by hell's terrors
and heaven's lures; masters of Allah's mysteries do not sow that chaff. The note
says reabsorbed souls have no concern with material heaven and hell.
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: quatrain 50 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: World, speech, hearing, the four quarters of earth, and chamber
secrets are all called naught; the note glosses this as illusion.
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: quatrain 51 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: A dreamed sage warns against consuming life in sleep, calls sleep
death's twin-brother, and says the tomb gives enough sleep; the note compares
Homer.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized with brief phrase.
- id: ev:6
type: summary
locator: quatrain 52, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: If the heart knew life's secrets below it would know God's secrets
at death; if one knows nothing while self remains, loss of self tomorrow will
not bring knowledge.
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: quatrain 53 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: On a dread day wrath rends the sky and darkness dims the stars;
the speaker seizes the Loved One's skirt and asks why guiltless ones are doomed.
The note cites Koran 82:1.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:8
type: summary
locator: quatrain 54, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The secret must not be confided to knaves and fools cannot comprehend
it; hopes are hidden from all.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:9
type: summary
locator: quatrain 55, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The cupbearer is addressed; despite fate's blows and no safe resting-place,
the bright wine-cup stands between them and gives Truth at hand as guide.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:10
type: summary
locator: quatrain 56, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The speaker once delighted in wine and rose, but since wine did
not accomplish the desired aim, he abandoned it.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:11
type: summary
locator: quatrain 57, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Wine is requested; fortune's waking is fleeting, days are quicksilver-swift,
and youthful fire subsides like torrents.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:12
type: summary
locator: quatrain 58 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Love's devotees are not Moslems or Solomons but ants of low degree,
with wan faces and rags; the note refers to Koran 27:18 on Solomon and the ants.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:13
type: summary
locator: quatrain 59, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The speaker's law is pleasure, creed is avoiding theological quarrel,
and he weds Luck, who wants only a gay heart.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:14
type: summary
locator: quatrain 60, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The speaker is outcast from mosque and foe to church, asks of
what clay God formed him, and has no hopes above or joys below.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:15
type: summary
locator: quatrain 61 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Men's lusts are compared with clamorous house-dogs, foxes, hares
in deceitful sleep, wolves, and pitiless tigers.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:16
type: summary
locator: quatrain 62, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Turf at the stream's margin may be like a cherub's lip or growth
from dust of buried tulip cheeks; it should not be trodden scornfully.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:17
type: summary
locator: quatrain 63 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Hearts illuminated by love, in mosque or synagogue, have names
written in the book of love and are unvexed by heaven or hell; the note compares
Hafiz on love and the Beloved's face.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:18
type: summary
locator: quatrain 64, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: One draught of wine outweighs the realm of Tus, throne of Kobad,
and crown of Kai Kawus; lovers' sighs exceed zealots' groans.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:19
type: summary
locator: quatrain 65, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: Condemned by Moslems, the speaker confides in his idol and says
that if he dies drunk he will call on wine.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:20
type: summary
locator: quatrain 66 and note, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The speaker says drinking is not for riot or transgressing divine
law; the sole cause is attaining unconsciousness of self. The note says this may
be a hit at orthodox Sufis.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:21
type: summary
locator: quatrain 67, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The speaker rejects the claim that drunkards are doomed to hell
and says heaven would be empty if drinkers did not enter.
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; summarized.
- id: ev:22
type: summary
locator: quatrain 68, within lines 6033-6256
quote_or_summary: The quatrain names Rajah, Sha'ban, and Ramazan in relation to
restrictions on drinking and asks whether Ramazan was made for thirsty man.
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: medium
notes: The passage is a series of lyric quatrains with editorial notes. Literal
extraction is strong, but motif assignment is interpretive because many images
are symbolic or Sufi-reception glosses rather than narrative episodes.
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: |-
Used only the supplied passage text, metadata, and available taxonomy references. Comparison claims are limited to explicit editorial comparisons or citations present in the passage.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l6033-l6256
passage_sha256=df4f4d87d95d4ecd563d6d972635b98e769c457d642fab6aafb61400be1ebf49