Concerning Independence. V. by Omar Khayyam. Upton Sinclair, ed. 1915. The Cry for Justice

Upton Sinclair, ed. (1878–1968).
The Cry for Justice: An Anthology of the Literature of Social Protest. 1915.

Concerning Independence. V.

By Omar Khayyam

(Persian poet, Eleventh Century)


IN this world he who possesses a morsel of bread, and some nest in which to shelter himself, who is master or slave of no man, tell that man to live content; he possesses a very sweet existence.	1