Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum.
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Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire. And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire.Omar Khayyam
Ah, fill the Cup - what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday, Why fret about them if To-day be sweet.
Omar Khayyam
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyam
So when that Angel of the darker Drink At last shall find you by the river-brink, And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul Forth to your Lips to to quaff - you shall not shrink.
Omar Khayyam
I sent my Soul through the Invisible,
Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And after many days my Soul return'd
And said, "Behold, Myself am Heav'n and Hell.
Omar Khayyam
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou; Beside me singing in the Wilderness --And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam
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