"Whether we wake or we sleep, Whether we carol or weep, The Sun with his Planets in chime, Marketh the going of Time."
"A book of verses underneath the bough, A jug of wine, a loaf of bread-and thou."
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Source: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, 4th ed., st. 11 (1879).
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