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Facts will not change to humour man's caprice,

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Facts will not change to humour man's caprice, by Omar Khayyam

Facts will not change to humour man's caprice,
So vaunt not human powers, but hold your peace;
Here must we stay, weighed down with grief for this,
That we were born so late, so soon decease.

Form: Quatrain

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