AutumnSunday, November 2, 2025
11 Aban 1404
Quatrain 70 of 75
“Ah, Moon of my Delight who know'st no wane,
The Moon of Heav'n is rising once again:
How oft hereafter rising shall she look
Through this same Garden after me—in vain!”
Omar Khayyamtr. Edward FitzGerald, 1859
Reflection · Autumn 1404
The Moon of Heaven is rising once again — in autumn this rising is most poignant. The harvest moon, the full moon of Mehregan, the moon that rides above the reddening and the releasing of the year. And Khayyam looks at it and thinks: how oft hereafter rising shall she look through this same garden after me. After me. In autumn this phrase arrives from the future and lands.
In vain — not because the moon will grieve. Because you will not be there to see it. The loss is the absence of the seer.