Religion
LXXXI
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Religion
Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd--Man's forgiveness give--and take!
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