Before your time or mine, there were many twilights,

Read 'Before your time or mine, there were many twilights,' by 'Omar Khayyam' and provide your summary and literary analysis in the comments section below.

Before your time or mine, there were many twilights, by Omar Khayyam

Before your time or mine, there were many twilights,
many dawns, and it is not without reason that the movement
of rotation is enforced upon the heavens. Be careful
as you place your foot upon this dust, for it has,
without doubt, formed the eyes of someone young and fair.

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