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rubaiyat of omar khayyam-第8部分

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the Hebrew Prophets to the present; when it may finally take the name

of 〃Pot theism;〃 by which Mr。 Carlyle ridiculed Sterling's

〃Pantheism。〃  My Sheikh; whose knowledge flows in from all quarters;

writes to me



〃Apropos of old Omar's Pots; did I ever tell you the sentence I found

in 'Bishop Pearson on the Creed'?  'Thus are we wholly at the disposal

of His will; and our present and future condition framed and ordered

by His free; but wise and just; decrees。  Hath not the potter power

over the clay; of the same lump to make one vessel unto honour; and

another unto dishonour?  (Rom。 ix。 21。)  And can that earth…artificer

have a freer power over his brother potsherd (both being made of the

same metal); than God hath over him; who; by the strange fecundity of

His omnipotent power; first made the clay out of nothing; and then him

out of that?'〃



And againfrom a very different quarter〃I had to refer the other

day to Aristophanes; and came by chance on a curious Speaking…pot

story in the Vespae; which I had quite forgotten。



'Greek text deleted from etext。'



〃The Pot calls a bystander to be a witness to his bad treatment。  The

woman says; 'If; by Proserpine; instead of all this 'testifying'

(comp。 Cuddie and his mother in 'Old Mortality!') you would buy

yourself a rivet; it would show more sense in you!'  The Scholiast

explains echinus as 'Greek phrase deleted from etext'。〃



One more illustration for the oddity's sake from the 〃Autobiography of

a Cornish Rector;〃 by the late James Hamley Tregenna。  1871。



〃There was one odd Fellow in our Companyhe was so like a Figure in

the 'Pilgrim's Progress' that Richard always called him the

'ALLEGORY;' with a long white bearda rare Appendage in those

daysand a Face the colour of which seemed to have been baked in;

like the Faces one used to see on Earthenware Jugs。  In our Country…

dialect Earthenware is called 'Clome'; so the Boys of the Village used

to shout out after him'Go back to the Potter; Old Clomeface; and get

baked over again。'  For the 'Allegory;' though shrewd enough in most

things; had the reputation of being 'saift…baked;' i。e。; of weak

intellect。〃



(XC。) At the Close of the Fasting Month; Ramazan (which makes the

Mussulman unhealthy and unamiable); the first Glimpse of the New Moon

(who rules their division of the Year) is looked for with the utmost

Anxiety; and hailed with Acclamation。  Then it is that the Porter's

Knot maybe heardtoward the Cellar。  Omar has elsewhere a pretty

Quatrain about the same Moon



 〃Be of Good Cheerthe sullen Month will die;

  And a young Moon requite us by and by:

    Look how the Old one meagre; bent; and wan

  With Age and Fast; is fainting from the Sky!〃









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