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THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 65 by OMAR KHAYYAM

First Line: THE REVELATIONS OF DEVOUT AND LEARNED
Last Line: THEY TOLD THEIR COMRADES, AND TO SLEEP RETURNED.
Subject(s): TIME;
The Revelations of Devout and Learned
Who rose before us, and as Prophets burned,
Are all but Stories, which awoke from Sleep
They told their comrades, and to Sleep returned.


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