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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 96, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography
First Line: Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose!
Last Line: Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Yet ah, that spring should vanish with the rose!
Last Line: Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the branches sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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