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THE RUBAIYAT, 1879 EDITION: 84 by OMAR KHAYYAM

First Line: SAID ONE AMONG THEM - 'SURELY NOT IN VAIN'
Last Line: "OR TRAMPLED BACK TO SHAPELESS EARTH AGAIN."
Subject(s): TIME;
Said one among them -- "Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta'en
And to this Figure moulded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."


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