Bestir yourself, since you are under this tyrannic vault;

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Bestir yourself, since you are under this tyrannic vault; by Omar Khayyam

Bestir yourself, since you are under this tyrannic vault;
drink wine, since you are in this world, a seat of woe.
And, from beginning to the end, being only earth, act
like a man who is upon the earth, and not as if thou
wert beneath the earth.

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