Living

LXXXIII

by Edward FitzGerald 1809–1883

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Living

Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listen'd perhaps, but never talk'd at all.

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