An Illustration by Edmund Dulac of the Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam. This was done in 1909.
Here is the verse that goes with it from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam translated by Edward Fitzgerald:
Look to the blowing Rose about us– “LoLaughing,” she says, “into the world I blow,At once the silken tassel of my PurseTear, [...]
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