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Rubaiyat of Khayyam

XCI.

Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,

And wash the Body whence the Life has died,

And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,

By some not unfrequented Garden-side.

XCII.

That ev’n buried Ashes such a snare

Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air

As not a True-believer passing by

But shall be overtaken unaware.

XCIII.

Indeed the Idols I have loved so long

Have done my credit in this World much wrong:

Have drown’d my Glory in a shallow Cup,

And sold my reputation for a Song.

XCIV.

Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before

I swore—but was I sober when I swore?

And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand

My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore.

XCV.

And much as Wine has play’d the Infidel,

And robb’d me of my Robe of Honor—Well,

I wonder often what the Vintners buy

One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

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