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From this world's kitchen crave not to obtain

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From this world's kitchen crave not to obtain by Omar Khayyam

From this world's kitchen crave not to obtain
Those dainties, seeming real, but really vain,
Which greedy worldlings gorge to their own loss;
Renounce that loss, so loss shall prove thy gain!

Form: Epigram

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