O fair! whose cheeks checkmate red eglantine,

by Omar Khayyam

O fair! whose cheeks checkmate red eglantine,
And draw the game with those fair maids of Chin,
You played one glance against the king of Babil
And took his pawns, and knights, and rooks, and queen.

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