Death & Dying
XXXV
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Death & Dying
Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn
I lean'd, the Secret of my 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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