Stranger Than Fiction

Mary L. Lewis is an excellent writer, who became famous with his book - "Stranger Than Fiction Being Tales from the Byways of Ghosts and Folk-lore"

If we may judge by the assertion contained in the below quatrain, Omar Khayyám was no believer in ghosts. In which respect the Persian poet must have differed from the general opinion of his times. For until a very few centuries ago, it was only a small minority of those who considered themselves wise above their fellows, who ventured to deny the possibility of the spirit's return to earth.