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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 78, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography
First Line: What! Out of senseless nothing to provoke
Last Line: Of everlasting penalties, if broke,
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
First Line: What! Out of senseless nothing to provoke
Last Line: Of everlasting penalties, if broke,
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke
A conscious Something to resent the yoke
Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain
Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke,
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