Death & Dying
XXXI
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Death & Dying
Up from Earth's Centre through the seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many Knots unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate.
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