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The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)

poetry · Item 101

A reason to turn the page

I sowed the seed of Wisdom and reaped: 'I came like Water, and like Wind I go.' What use is wisdom that blows away?

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With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd-- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."