Living
Omar
From Fifty Years & Other Poems (1917)
Living
Old Omar, jolly sceptic, it may be
That, after all, you found the magic key
To life and all its mystery, and I
Must own you have almost persuaded me.
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MLA
Johnson, James Weldon. “Omar.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_jw/30/.
Chicago
Johnson, James Weldon. “Omar.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/johnson_jw/30/.
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