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O Love! while yet you can, with tender art,

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O Love! while yet you can, with tender art, by Omar Khayyam

O Love! while yet you can, with tender art,
Lift sorrow's burden from your lover's heart;
Your wealth of graces will not always last,
But slip from your possession, and depart!

Form: Quatrain

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