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Summary

Artist

Adelaide Hanscom (1875–1931)
Alternative names	Adelaide Hanscom Leeson, Adelaide Marquand Hanscom Leeson, Adelaide Marquand Leeson
Description	American photographer Adelaide Hanscom
Date of birth/death	25 November 1875	19 November 1931
Location of birth/death	Empire City, Oregon, United States	Pasadena, California, United States
Work period	from 1901 until circa 1916 (as photographer), did some watercolors later
Work location	San Francisco, Seattle, Alaska (studio photography)
Authority control	WorldCat

and Creator:Blanche Cumming (fl. 1902 - 1924)

Title

English: Earth Could Not Answer

فارسی: «زمین نمی‌توانست پاسخ دهد»

Description

English: An old man with a long white beard and Persian headdress reads by the light of a large candle.

فارسی: مردی پیر با ریشی بلند و سفید با کلاه ایرانی در حال مطالعهٔ رباعیات عمر خیام زیر نور شمع.

Date

1905 and 1912

Source/Photographer

Omar Khayyam, tr. Edward Fitzgerald: “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” (1905, 1912)

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Text

XXXIII

Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn

In flowing Purple, of their Lord forlorn;

Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal’d

And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn.

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