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Every particle of dust on a patch of earth Was a sun-cheek or brow of the morning star; Shake the dust off your sleeve carefully-- That too was a delicate, fair face.
— Omar Khayyam Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Tags: poetry

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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
— Omar Khayyam
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Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
— Omar Khayyam
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
— Omar Khayyam
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
— Omar Khayyam
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A loaf of bread, a jug of wine, and thou.
— Omar Khayyam
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