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The starry aspects are not all benign;

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The starry aspects are not all benign; by Omar Khayyam

The starry aspects are not all benign;
Why toil then after vain desires, and pine
To lade thyself with load of fortune's boons,
Only to drop it with this life of thine?

Form: Quatrain

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