A
book and a
jug and a
dame,
And a nice cozy
nook for the same;
"And
I don't care a damn,"
Said
Omar Khayyam,
"What you say,
it's a great little game."
- anonymous
As for the accuracy of this limerick, we are directed to XI: 41-44 of Edward Fitzgerald's translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse--and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness--
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.