Time & Brevity
XXV
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Time & Brevity
Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss'd
Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust
Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.
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