Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spin
The Thread of present Life away to win --
What?
(The Rubaiyat Of Omar Khayyam)
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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
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose. That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close The Nightingale that in the branches sang Ah.
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Living Life Tomorrow's fate, though thou be wise, Thou canst not tell nor yet surmise; Pass, therefore, not today in vain, For it will never come again.
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Tonight I will make a tun of wine, Set myself up with two bowls of it First I will divorce absolutely reason and religion, Then take to wife the daughter of the vine
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A hair divides what is false and true.
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When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.
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