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Lament not fortune's want of constancy,

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Lament not fortune's want of constancy, by Omar Khayyam

Lament not fortune's want of constancy,
But up! and seize her favours ere they flee;
If fortune always cleaved to other men,
How could a turn of luck have come to thee?

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