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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 97, by OMAR KHAYYAM Poet's Biography
First Line: Would but the desert of the fountain yield
Last Line: As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
First Line: Would but the desert of the fountain yield
Last Line: As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
Alternate Author Name(s): Khayyam, Omar
Subject(s): Time
Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield
One glimpse--if dimly, yet indeed revealed,
To which the fainting Traveller might spring,
As springs the trampled herbage of the field!
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