The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (23) [Archives:2006/934/Culture]

Translated by Edward FitzGerald
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,

Before we too into the dust descend;

Dust into dust, and under dust, to lie,

Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and – sans end!
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