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.
Source: The Rub?iy?t of Omar Khayy?m, st. 11, r. by Edward FitzGerald; first ed., 1859.
-- Omar Khayyam, (May 18 1048-1131), Persian poet, mathematician, astronomer; He was renowned in his own country and time for his scientific achievements.