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

poetry · Item 217

A reason to turn the page

Each morn a thousand Roses—so where leaves the Rose of Yesterday, and the kings who saw it?

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Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say: Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday? And this first Summer month that brings the Rose Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.