Death & Dying
XXXIV
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Death & Dying
Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn
My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:
And Lip to Lip it murmur'd--"While you live,
Drink!--for once dead you never shall return."
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