Ah! would there were a place of rest from pain,

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Ah! would there were a place of rest from pain, by Omar Khayyam

Ah! would there were a place of rest from pain,
Which we, poor pilgrims, might at last attain,
And after many thousand wintry years,
Renew our life, like flowers, and bloom again!

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