Time & Brevity
LXXXVI
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Time & Brevity
After a momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;
"They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"
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MLA
FitzGerald, Edward. “LXXXVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/86/.
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FitzGerald, Edward. “LXXXVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/86/.
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