The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
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No barbèd Anguish chooses long to stay,
And only in the Pipe is Friendship found That waxes Strong and Stronger day by day. XLVIII Come, rest your Head if Earth rotative seems And close your Lids from these o'er wakeful Gleams - Although your Palate cringe you shall not shrink Within the Kitchen of the House of Dreams. XLIX Murkly I muse on that transcendent State Where all my Pasts within the Future wait - If I for Heavenly Marriages am marked, Oh what a Turk I'll be beyond the Gate! L |
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