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I wasted life in hope, yet gathered not

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I wasted life in hope, yet gathered not by Omar Khayyam

I wasted life in hope, yet gathered not
In all my life of happiness one jot;
Now my fear is that life may not endure.
Till I have taken vengeance on my lot!

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