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But yesterday, I saw a potter in a bazaar treading

By Omar Khayyam

But yesterday, I saw a potter in a bazaar treading
most vigorously the clay he was molding. The clay
seemed to say to him: I also have been like thee; treat
me, then, with less harshness.

Form: Free verse

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