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Cheer up! your lot was settled yesterday!

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Cheer up! your lot was settled yesterday! by Omar Khayyam

Cheer up! your lot was settled yesterday!
Heedless of all that you might do or say,
Without so much as «By your leave» they fixed
Your lot for all the morrows yesterday!

Form: Epigram

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