Cease, if ye are my friends, all vain discourse, and,

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Cease, if ye are my friends, all vain discourse, and, by Omar Khayyam

Cease, if ye are my friends, all vain discourse, and,
to relieve my mental pains pour out the wine. And
when to dust my frame returns, the self-same dust
collect and make it brick to stop some crevice in the
tavern wall.

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