History & Politics
X.
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
History & Politics
With me along some Strip of Herbage strown
That just divides the desert from the sown,
Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known,
And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne.
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