'It is He that hath made us, and not we ourselves'

Edward FitzGerald is buried in the churchyard of the small, isolated Church of St Michael & All Angels, Boulge, Suffolk, England. (Follow the road from Bredfield to Debach and then turn left onto a concrete track).       His grave is situated next to the FitzGerald family mausoleum.        FitzGerald refused to live at Boulge Hall with the rest of his family and chose instead to live in a single story thatched cottage on the family estate for 16 years.         He was a great friend of Alfred Tennyson Fitzgerald is mainly remembered today for his translation from the Persian of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. He first published it anonymously in 1859 and then enlarged it in subsequent editions in 1868, 1872 and 1879.
Church of St. Michael and All Angels	Fitzgerald made translations of other Persian works including: Bird Parliament by Attar and Salaman and Absal by Jami. He also made a selection of the work of fellow Suffolk poet George Crabbe.He was married to the daughter of the Quaker poet Bernard Barton for a brief period, but the couple were unsuited. He also had a gay relationship with  a fisherman from Woodbridge - the town where he lived for the last 23 years of his life.        A clipping from a rose tree which grew on the tomb of Omar Khayyam at Naishapur was planted at one end of Fitzgerald's grave in 1893.  Six more rose trees were planted around the grave in 1972.
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,  Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit    Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.