Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 15 [Archives:2006/918/Culture]
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
And those who husbanded the golden grain,
And those who flung it to the winds like rain,
Alike to no such aureate earth are turn'd
As, buried once, men want dug up again.
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