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QUATRAIN: OMAR KHAYYAM (AFTER FITZGERALD) by THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH

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First Line: SULTAN AND SLAVE ALIKE HAVE GONE THEIR WAY
Last Line: SEVEN CENTURIES SINCE STILL CHARMS THE WISE TO-DAY.
Subject(s): OMAR KHAYYAM (1048-1122);
SULTAN and Slave alike have gone their way
With Bahram Gur, but whither none may say;
Yet he who charmed the wise at Naishapur
Seven centuries since still charms the wise to-day.



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