Religion

LXXX

by Edward FitzGerald 1809–1883

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Religion

Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin
Beset the Road I was to wander in,
Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round
Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!

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