The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Wallace Irwin
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O foozled Poetasters, fogged with Wine, Who to your Orgies bid the Muses Nine, Go bid them, then, but leave to me the Tenth, Whose name is Nicotine, for she is mine! LXII Peace to the Pipe, that silent Infidel, Whose spiral-twisted Coils Discretion spell! How many Kisses has he seen me Give, How many Take - and yet he will not Tell. LXIII Dumbly he saw the rosy-tinted Bliss When Zamperina kissed her maiden Kiss, Her Innocence betraying in the Cry, "Oh, how can you respect me after This?" |
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