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And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me — Omar Khayyám

And this I know: whether the one True Light Kindle to Love, or Wrath-consume me quite, One Flash of It within the Tavern caught Better than in the Temple lost outright.

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