These people string their beads of learned lumber,

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These people string their beads of learned lumber, by Omar Khayyam

These people string their beads of learned lumber,
And tell of Allah stories without number;
Yet never solve the riddle of the skies,
But wag the chin, and get them back to slumber.

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