The Rubaiyat of Omer Khayyam (39) [Archives:2006/966/Culture]

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July 24 2006

Translated by: Edward FitzGerald
With earth's first clay they did the last man's knead,

And then of the last harvest sow'd the seed:

Yea, the first morning of creation wrote

What the last dawn of reckonig shall read.
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