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The following "tetrad" (using four concepts rather than three) antedates all of the above:
The lines are more freely translated, and more familiar in Edward FitzGerald 's final synthesis (1889): ::"A Book of Verses underneath the Bough, ::A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and Thou ::Beside me singing in the Wilderness— ::Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!" ::::— Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam '', Quatrain xii. The phrase may have originated with the following couplet:
The Waltz Wine, Women and Song ('''' Wein, Weib Und Gesang ''''') is Op. 333 (1869) of Johann Strauss II . |
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