Nature
XCVI
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Nature
Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!
That Youth's sweet-scented manuscript should close!
The Nightingale that in the branches sang,
Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!
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FitzGerald, Edward. “XCVI.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/96/.
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FitzGerald, Edward. “XCVI.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/96/.
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