Nature
LXV
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Nature
The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd
Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd,
Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep
They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
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