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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 84, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography
First Line: Said one among them - 'surely not in vain'
Last Line: "or trampled back to shapeless earth again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Said one among them - 'surely not in vain'
Last Line: "or trampled back to shapeless earth again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
Said one among them -- "Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure moulded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
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