From time to time my heart finds itself much straitened

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From time to time my heart finds itself much straitened by Omar Khayyam

From time to time my heart finds itself much straitened
in its cage. Shameful is it to be mixed with water
and clay. I have often thought of destroying this prison,
but my foot would come in contact with a stone and slip
on the stirrup of the Koran's law.

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