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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 73, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography
First Line: With earth's first clay they did the last man knead
Last Line: What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
First Line: With earth's first clay they did the last man knead
Last Line: What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And there of the Last Harvest sowed the Seed;
And the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
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