Arts & Sciences
LXXXIV
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Arts & Sciences
Said one among them--"Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."
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FitzGerald, Edward. “LXXXIV.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/84/.
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FitzGerald, Edward. “LXXXIV.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/84/.
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