Fannie reads the Rubáiyát Published June 10, 2009 at 604 × 453 in Fannie reads the Rubáiyát Fannie reads the Rubáiyát Fannie reads the Rubáiyát. “Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire / To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, / Would not we shatter it to bits — and then / Re-mould it nearer to the Heart’s Desire!”