Do you know how the cypress and the lily have acquired

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Do you know how the cypress and the lily have acquired by Omar Khayyam

Do you know how the cypress and the lily have acquired
the name for freedom which they enjoy among men?
It is because one has ten tongues but remains mute, and
the other possesses a hundred hands and keeps them all
empty.

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