Jalāl ad-Dīn Muhammad Rūmī (جلالالدین محمد رومی),
died December 17th, 1273
Upon his death, Jalāl ad-Dīn Rūmī,
(Whose poems never said a lot to me)
I find I must resort to rubáiyát
Upon this winter day, so cold and gloomy.
The scansions of the late Edward FitzGerald
(Omar Khayyám\'s perhaps unlikely herald)
Preserve the form of ancient Persian verse
In which the poet, his warm heart laid bare held
The words a student sets upon her dresser,
(With Leonard Cohen and Gibran), and, bless her,
Rūmī in several dubious translations,
By poets rarely greater, mostly lesser.