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VERSES WRITTEN FOR THE MENU OF THE OMAR KHAYYAM CLUB (2) by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON

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First Line: ROSES AND WINE YOUR OMAR BRINGS
Last Line: WE DRINK, NOT MEMORY, BUT HOPE.
Subject(s): OMAR KHAYYAM (1048-1122);

ROSES and Wine your OMAR brings,
Yet o'er the Cup, a Moment-Space,
Peers into Naught with wistful Face,
As One who views but bygone Things.

Not so with Us. Our larger Scope
Looks backward through the Past to see
Not what has been, but what may be --
We drink, not Memory, but Hope.



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