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Nor you nor I can read the etern decree,

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Nor you nor I can read the etern decree, by Omar Khayyam

Nor you nor I can read the etern decree,
To that enigma we can find no key;
They talk of you and me behind the veil,
But, if that veil be lifted, where are we?

Form: Quatrain

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