The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
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XLII
Cigars I puff devoutly when I May, And when I Can the Pipe, another Day, And when I Must I browse on Cigarettes - Then, as you love me, take the Stubs away! XLIII Waste not your Weed, the Leaves are all too few It's Nectar to defile as Others do - Ah, shun the Solecism and the Plug For Cattle-Kings and Stevedores to chew. XLIV Once in a Dream 'twas granted unto me The open Gates of Paradise to see, While Israfel loud chanted from the Void, "This Vision comes of Pie; not Piety!" |
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