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

poetry · Item 277

A reason to turn the page

Every drop we spill might already be slipping underground to quench some long-hidden anguish—whose eyes were eased?

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And not a drop that from our Cups we throw For Earth to drink of, but may steal below To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden--far beneath, and long ago.