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Since all man's business in this world of woe

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Since all man's business in this world of woe by Omar Khayyam

Since all man's business in this world of woe
Is sorrow's pangs to feel, and grief to know,
Happy are they that never come at all,
And they that, having come, the soonest go!

Form: Heroic Couplet

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