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O my companions! pour me some wine and thus

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O my companions! pour me some wine and thus by Omar Khayyam

O my companions! pour me some wine and thus
change my face, from yellow as amber, to the color of
the ruby. When I am dead, lave me in wine, and of
the wood of the vine make my coffin and bier.

Form: Lyric

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