batch.motif.sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg-l8524-l8747
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label: E.H. WHINFIELD, M.A. / INTRODUCTION / E.H. WHINFIELD / QUATRAINS OF OMAR
KHAYYAM; lines 8524-8747
start: '8524'
end: '8747'
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 and notes presents speaking cups in a potter's
shop, wine-drinking and tavern scenes, appeals to divine mercy, reflections on
fate, divine making and destruction, the hostile wheel of heaven, dawn drinking,
warnings about hell and death, the world as illusion, love-induced silence and
thirst, and the difficult passage from words to mystical states of Truth.
language: English
quote_policy: summarized
literal_observations:
- id: obs:1
text: A company of cups in a potter's shop is depicted as conversing, and one asks
who made, sells, and buys the crockery.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: obs:2
text: A speaker leaving a tavern sees a sage or Shaikh carrying a large wine-jug
and asks whether he has shame; the sage answers by referring to Allah's boundless
mercy.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: obs:3
text: Wine is described as life's fount, guarded by Khizir, and found by the speaker
like Elias; the note connects Elias with the water of life.
category: relationship
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: obs:4
text: The speaker recommends drinking wine continually despite its being banned,
with one drop spilled as a gesture of liberality.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:4
- id: obs:5
text: The speaker rejects the importance of multiple creeds and says only loving
the addressed 'Thee' matters.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: obs:6
text: The speaker asks that sins be forgiven by the score and invokes Muhammad's
tomb while asking that faults not kindle divine wrath.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: obs:7
text: A quatrain states that coming ill cannot be defeated, fate is fixed, and grieving
will not alter it.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- id: obs:8
text: A chalice made with profound wit and marked by the Maker's favor is smashed
by the world's Potter.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: obs:9
text: Wine is called a thin spirit and a limpid soul within the earthenware of a
cup.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:9
- id: obs:10
text: The wheel of heaven is addressed as a harmful force that flays the speaker
and is unfavorably compared to a woman's spinning wheel.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: obs:11
text: The speaker says that if roses, prayer-mats, beads, and a Shaikh were lacking,
thorn and Christian bells and stoles could serve instead.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- id: obs:12
text: Dawn is shown as breaking and rending night's canopy, prompting a morning
drink before future dawns arrive when the speakers are absent.
category: sequence
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: obs:13
text: One quatrain warns those who do not fear hell-fire or wash in remorse that
death's winds will quench the vital torch and earth may expel guilty dust.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: obs:14
text: The world is described as a hollow pageant, a vain illusion, and a baseless
dream.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: obs:15
text: Death's blasts are said to rend the robe of flesh like scattered rose leaves.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:16
- id: obs:16
text: Wine is personified as the forbidden daughter of the grape.
category: attribute
evidence_refs:
- ev:17
- id: obs:17
text: A love or beloved appears, overcoming the speaker; the speaker's heart speaks
while the tongue is dumb, and the speaker dies of thirst beside water-brooks.
category: action
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: obs:18
text: Truth is said not to be shown by lofty thought or bought with gold; after
long self-denial one may be brought from words to states.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: obs:19
text: The speaker claims to have solved problems from Saturn to earth and loosened
every knot except death.
category: speech
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
figures:
- id: fig:1
name_or_label: speaker
description: First-person voice who observes, drinks, appeals for forgiveness, addresses
heaven, reflects on death, and seeks Truth.
role_refs:
- role:1
- role:2
- role:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- ev:6
- ev:10
- ev:18
- ev:20
- ev:21
- id: fig:2
name_or_label: company of cups
description: Cups in a potter's shop depicted as conversing; one cup speaks about
maker, seller, and buyer.
role_refs:
- role:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: fig:3
name_or_label: sage or Shaikh
description: A sage seen carrying a great wine-jug outside the tavern; he responds
that Allah has boundless mercy.
role_refs:
- role:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: fig:4
name_or_label: Allah
description: Named as having boundless mercy and as calling wine a boon to man.
role_refs:
- role:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: fig:5
name_or_label: Khizir
description: Named as guardian of life's fount, identified with wine in the quatrain.
role_refs:
- role:7
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:6
name_or_label: Elias
description: Used as a comparison for finding life's fount; the note says Elias
discovered the water of life.
role_refs:
- role:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: fig:7
name_or_label: addressed 'Thee'
description: Capitalized addressee whom the speaker says is the sole object of love
and all that is needed.
role_refs:
- role:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: fig:8
name_or_label: Muhammad
description: Invoked through his blessed tomb in a request for forgiveness.
role_refs:
- role:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: fig:9
name_or_label: Maker or world's Potter
description: Figure associated with making a favored chalice and then dashing it
to pieces.
role_refs:
- role:11
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: fig:10
name_or_label: wheel of heaven
description: Personified heavenly wheel accused of harming the speaker and lacking
human obligations.
role_refs:
- role:12
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: fig:11
name_or_label: Death
description: Personified or force-like presence whose winds or blasts extinguish
life and rend flesh; death remains the final unresolved knot.
role_refs:
- role:13
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:16
- ev:21
- id: fig:12
name_or_label: Truth
description: Capitalized Truth that cannot be reached by thought or gold and may
be approached through long effort from words to states.
role_refs:
- role:14
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
roles:
- id: role:1
label: observer-narrator
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker reports seeing cups in a potter's shop and a sage leaving a tavern.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:2
- id: role:2
label: supplicant
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker asks that sins be forgiven and faults not kindle wrath.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:3
label: mystical seeker
assigned_to:
- fig:1
basis: The speaker speaks of reaching Truth and solving cosmic problems while death
remains unresolved.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- ev:21
- id: role:4
label: speaking vessel
assigned_to:
- fig:2
basis: The cups converse and one raises its voice.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: role:5
label: wine-bearing sage
assigned_to:
- fig:3
basis: The sage carries a wine-jug and answers with a statement about Allah's mercy.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: role:6
label: merciful divine source
assigned_to:
- fig:4
basis: Allah is described as having boundless mercy and as naming wine a boon.
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- id: role:7
label: guardian of life-fount
assigned_to:
- fig:5
basis: Khizir is called guardian of life's fount.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:8
label: finder of life-water
assigned_to:
- fig:6
basis: The speaker likens himself to Elias, and the note says Elias discovered the
water of life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: role:9
label: beloved addressee
assigned_to:
- fig:7
basis: The speaker says he holds only to the creed of loving Thee and that Thee
is all that is needed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: role:10
label: intercessory sacred reference
assigned_to:
- fig:8
basis: Muhammad's tomb is invoked in a plea for forgiveness.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: role:11
label: creator-destroyer potter
assigned_to:
- fig:9
basis: The Maker's favored chalice is dashed apart by the world's Potter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: role:12
label: cosmic adversary
assigned_to:
- fig:10
basis: The wheel of heaven is accused of flaying the speaker and doing less good
than a woman's wheel.
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: role:13
label: mortal limit
assigned_to:
- fig:11
basis: Death quenches the vital torch, rends flesh, and remains the final knot.
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- ev:16
- ev:21
- id: role:14
label: mystical goal
assigned_to:
- fig:12
basis: Truth cannot be shown by thought or bought by gold and may be reached only
after prolonged transformation.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
symbols:
- id: sym:1
label: cup or crockery
literal_form: cups, crockery, chalice, wine-cups, earthenware cup
associated_figures:
- fig:2
- fig:9
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- ev:8
- ev:9
- id: sym:2
label: wine
literal_form: wine, wine-jug, cup of wine, daughter of the grape
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- ev:3
- ev:4
- ev:9
- ev:17
- ev:19
- id: sym:3
label: water of life and water-brooks
literal_form: life's fount, water of life, water-brooks, water of remorse's well
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:5
- fig:6
taxonomy_refs:
- water
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- ev:14
- ev:18
- id: sym:4
label: fire and flame
literal_form: wrath kindled to flame, fires of hell, vital torch
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs:
- fire
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:14
- id: sym:5
label: wheel of heaven
literal_form: heavenly wheel contrasted with a woman's spinning wheel
associated_figures:
- fig:10
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: sym:6
label: dawn and night canopy
literal_form: dawn breaking and rending night's canopy
associated_figures:
- fig:1
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: sym:7
label: rose, thorn, and cypress
literal_form: rose, thorn, cypress-like maids, scattered rose leaves
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:11
- ev:16
- id: sym:8
label: dream or pageant world
literal_form: hollow pageant, vain illusion, baseless dream
associated_figures: []
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: sym:9
label: knot of death
literal_form: every knot loosened except death
associated_figures:
- fig:1
- fig:11
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
- id: sym:10
label: Truth and states
literal_form: capitalized Truth and states of ecstatic union noted by the editor
associated_figures:
- fig:12
taxonomy_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
scenes:
- id: scene:1
label: Speaking cups in the potter's shop
summary: The speaker chances upon cups conversing in a potter's shop, and one cup
asks about its maker, seller, and buyer.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:2
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
- id: scene:2
label: Sage with wine-jug at the tavern
summary: The speaker leaves the tavern, sees a sage with a great wine-jug, questions
his shame, and receives an answer about Allah's mercy.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:3
- fig:4
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
evidence_refs:
- ev:2
- id: scene:3
label: Wine as life's fount
summary: Wine is equated with life's fount, guarded by Khizir and found by the speaker
in the manner of Elias.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:5
- fig:6
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
- id: scene:4
label: Creed of loving Thee
summary: The speaker dismisses the significance of many creeds and declares loving
the addressed Thee to be sufficient.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:7
symbol_refs: []
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
- id: scene:5
label: Plea for forgiveness
summary: The speaker asks for sins to be forgiven and faults not to kindle wrath,
invoking Muhammad's tomb.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:4
- fig:8
symbol_refs:
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- id: scene:6
label: Potter destroys the chalice
summary: A favored and skillfully made chalice is smashed on the ground by the world's
Potter.
figure_refs:
- fig:9
symbol_refs:
- sym:1
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
- id: scene:7
label: Complaint against the wheel of heaven
summary: The speaker addresses the wheel of heaven as a harmful cosmic force and
compares it unfavorably to a domestic spinning wheel.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:10
symbol_refs:
- sym:5
evidence_refs:
- ev:10
- id: scene:8
label: Dawn drinking before absence
summary: Dawn breaks through night's canopy and the speaker calls for a morning
drink before future dawns arrive when the speakers are gone.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:6
evidence_refs:
- ev:13
- id: scene:9
label: Warning of hell, death, and rejected dust
summary: A warning addresses those without fear of hell or remorse; death's winds
extinguish life, and earth may reject guilty dust.
figure_refs:
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
- sym:4
evidence_refs:
- ev:14
- id: scene:10
label: World as dreamlike illusion
summary: The world is described as a hollow pageant and baseless dream to be shaken
off by cheer and drinking.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:2
- sym:8
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
- id: scene:11
label: Love, dumb tongue, and thirst by water
summary: Love overcomes the speaker; the heart speaks, the tongue is dumb, and the
speaker dies of thirst beside water-brooks.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
symbol_refs:
- sym:3
evidence_refs:
- ev:18
- id: scene:12
label: Difficult access to Truth
summary: Truth cannot be reached by thought or gold; only through long effort may
one pass from words to states.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:12
symbol_refs:
- sym:10
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
- id: scene:13
label: All knots except death
summary: The speaker claims to have solved cosmic problems and escaped fraud and
lies, but the knot of death remains unresolved.
figure_refs:
- fig:1
- fig:11
symbol_refs:
- sym:9
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
candidate_motifs:
- id: motif:1
label: speaking vessel questions maker and owner
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Cups in a potter's shop converse, and one asks who made, sells, and buys
the crockery.
evidence_refs:
- ev:1
confidence: high
cautions: No supplied taxonomy family directly names this vessel motif.
- id: motif:2
label: wine as life-giving water
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
basis: Wine is identified with life's fount, linked to Khizir and Elias, and connected
by the note to the water of life.
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
confidence: medium
cautions: The taxonomy has no dedicated water-of-life motif; mystical_quest is a
broad fit.
- id: motif:3
label: exclusive love of divine or beloved addressee over creeds
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_beloved
basis: The speaker says the many creeds are secondary to the creed of loving the
addressed Thee, who is all that is needed.
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
confidence: medium
cautions: The passage capitalizes Thee, but the exact identity of the addressee
is not independently explained here.
- id: motif:4
label: divine forgiveness and wrath
taxonomy_refs:
- divine_judgment
basis: The speaker asks that sins be forgiven and faults not kindle wrath; another
quatrain warns of hell-fire, remorse, death, and guilty dust.
evidence_refs:
- ev:6
- ev:14
confidence: high
cautions: One note suggests the hell-warning may be a pious reader's response rather
than original Khayyam material.
- id: motif:5
label: creator destroys created vessel
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: A chalice marked by the Maker's favor is dashed to pieces by the world's
Potter.
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
confidence: high
cautions: No available taxonomy reference specifically covers the potter-vessel
creation image.
- id: motif:6
label: world as illusion or dream
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The passage states that wise people know things are not what they seem and
calls earthly existence a hollow pageant, vain illusion, and baseless dream.
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
confidence: high
cautions: The taxonomy reference 'wisdom' is broad.
- id: motif:7
label: mortality and carpe diem before death
taxonomy_refs: []
basis: Several quatrains urge drinking or cheer in the face of fixed fate, future
absence, death's blasts, and the unsolved knot of death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:7
- ev:13
- ev:16
- ev:21
confidence: high
cautions: This is a recurring thematic pattern rather than a single narrative episode.
- id: motif:8
label: mystical passage from words to states of Truth
taxonomy_refs:
- mystical_quest
- annihilation_union
basis: Truth cannot be reached by thought or gold; the note explains 'states' as
ecstatic union with the Truth or Deity of the Mystics.
evidence_refs:
- ev:20
confidence: medium
cautions: The phrase 'annihilation' is not used in the passage; the taxonomy reference
rests on the note's union language.
- id: motif:9
label: wisdom reaches cosmic limits but not death
taxonomy_refs:
- wisdom
basis: The speaker claims to solve problems from Saturn to earth and loosen every
knot except death.
evidence_refs:
- ev:21
confidence: high
cautions: The passage frames death as an unresolved limit, not as an afterlife journey.
comparison_claims:
- id: claim:1
claim: The chalice smashed by the world's Potter is explicitly compared in the note
to Job's question about God despising the labor of his hands, suggesting a shared
function of questioning divine treatment of creation.
claim_level: same_function
target: Job's question about the labor of God's hands
evidence_refs:
- ev:8
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is editorial and functional; the passage does not establish
historical contact or direct borrowing.
- id: claim:2
claim: The wine as life's fount passage is linked by the note to Elias and the water
of life, supporting comparison with a water-of-life quest pattern in adjacent
Islamic and prophetic lore.
claim_level: same_motif
target: Elias and the water of life tradition
evidence_refs:
- ev:3
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The note gives the allusion, but the quatrain itself compresses the
tradition into a brief image.
- id: claim:3
claim: The description of earthly existence as a vain illusion is explicitly glossed
by the note as 'Maya,' supporting a cautious same-function comparison with illusion-of-world
teachings.
claim_level: same_function
target: Maya as earthly illusion
evidence_refs:
- ev:15
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The comparison is editorial and conceptual; no historical relationship
is demonstrated.
- id: claim:4
claim: The note to the creed-of-love quatrain points to the Gulshan i Raz on indifference
of forms of faith, supporting comparison within Sufi reception around love overriding
formal creed.
claim_level: same_function
target: Gulshan i Raz teaching on forms of faith
evidence_refs:
- ev:5
counter_evidence_refs: []
confidence: medium
limitations: The passage provides only an editorial cross-reference, not a detailed
parallel passage.
evidence:
- id: ev:1
type: quote
locator: 8524-8527
quote_or_summary: In a potter's shop, a company of cups converse; one asks, 'Who
made, who sells, who buys this crockery?'
source_text_path: texts/public-domain/sufi/project-gutenberg/sufistic-quatrains-omar-khayyam.md
rights_note: Public domain source; short quotation used.
- id: ev:2
type: summary
locator: 8531-8534
quote_or_summary: The speaker reels from the tavern, sees a sage with a wine-jug,
asks about shame, and the sage answers that Allah has boundless mercy.
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: 8541-8548
quote_or_summary: Wine is called life's fount, Khizir its guardian, and the speaker
finds it like Elias; the note cites the Koran and says Elias discovered the water
of life.
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: 8550-8559
quote_or_summary: Though wine is banned, the quatrain urges drinking by day and
night; the note says spilling one drop is a sign of liberality.
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: 8561-8569
quote_or_summary: The speaker rejects the importance of seventy-three creeds and
holds only to loving 'Thee'; the note says forms of faith are indifferent and
cites Gulshan i Raz.
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: 8571-8578
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks for virtues to be counted, sins forgiven, faults
not to kindle wrath, and forgiveness by Muhammad's tomb.
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: 8580-8584
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says coming ill cannot be defeated, grief should
not be carried, and fate is fixed.
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: 8586-8592
quote_or_summary: A chalice made with profound wit and the Maker's favor is dashed
to pieces by the world's Potter; the note compares Job's question about the labor
of God's hands.
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: 8594-8598
quote_or_summary: Wine is described as a thin spirit and limpid soul in a cup's
earthenware.
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: 8600-8604
quote_or_summary: The speaker addresses the wheel of heaven as harmful and says
a woman's spinning wheel does more good.
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: 8606-8615
quote_or_summary: The speaker says thorn could substitute for rose, and Christian
bells and stoles could substitute if prayer-mats, beads, and Shaikh were lacking.
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: 8617-8621
quote_or_summary: If heaven denies peace and fame, the speaker accepts war and shame
and threatens a scorner of bright wine.
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: 8623-8627
quote_or_summary: Dawn breaks and rends night's canopy; the speaker calls for a
morning draught before future dawns come when they are absent.
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: 8629-8637
quote_or_summary: A warning mentions fires of hell, water of remorse, winds of death
quenching the vital torch, and earth expelling guilty dust; the note suggests
it may answer Khayyam's scoffs.
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: 8639-8647
quote_or_summary: The world is called a hollow pageant, vain illusion, and baseless
dream; the note says earthly existence is 'Maya.'
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: 8649-8656
quote_or_summary: The quatrain says to share wine-cups with fair maids before death's
blasts rend the robe of flesh like scattered rose leaves.
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: 8658-8666
quote_or_summary: The speaker tells a melancholy brother to woo the sweet daughter
of the grape, glossed as wine, though she is forbidden.
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: 8668-8675
quote_or_summary: The speaker's love shines forth and overcomes him; heart speaks,
tongue is dumb, and he dies of thirst beside water-brooks.
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: 8677-8681
quote_or_summary: The speaker asks for a cup and song with the bulbul's symphony;
wine gurgles from the flask, implying drinking should not be mute.
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: 8683-8691
quote_or_summary: Truth cannot be shown to lofty thought or bought with gold; after
yielding life for fifty years one may pass from words to states, glossed as ecstatic
union with Truth or Deity.
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: 8693-8697
quote_or_summary: The speaker claims to solve all problems from Saturn to earth,
escape fraud and lies, and loosen every knot except that of death.
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: Literal extraction is supported by the provided passage. Motif assignments
are cautious where available taxonomy labels are broad. Comparison claims rely
on explicit editorial notes in the provided text and do not infer historical transmission.
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: |-
Line range includes quatrains and editorial notes from approximately 282/283 through 303, with a trailing heading for 304 but no quatrain text for 304 in the provided passage.
batch_run_id=motif-extraction-2026-04-28-high-priority
custom_id=motif_extract:sufi-omar-khayyam-sufistic-quatrains-gutenberg__l8524-l8747
passage_sha256=12f4e6453d95585bf64c1c675dd1e25489586754923e309de3db5c3697ca26ba