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Ask not the chances of the time to be,

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Ask not the chances of the time to be, by Omar Khayyam

Ask not the chances of the time to be,
And for the past, 'tis vanished, as you see;
This ready-money breath set down as gain,
Future and past concern not you or me.

Form: Quatrain

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