Behold these cups! Can He who deigned to make them,

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Behold these cups! Can He who deigned to make them, by Omar Khayyam

Behold these cups! Can He who deigned to make them,
In wanton freak let ruin overtake them,
So many shapely feet and hands and heads,—
What love drives Him to make, what wrath to break them?

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