Omar Khayyám: We come and go, but for the gain, where is it? And spin life’s woof, but for the warp, where is it? And many a righteous

We come and go, but for the gain, where is it? And spin life’s woof, but for the warp, where is it? And many a righteous man has burned to dust In heaven’s blue rondure, but their smoke where is it?

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