This firmament is a porringer overturned upon our

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This firmament is a porringer overturned upon our by Omar Khayyam

This firmament is a porringer overturned upon our
heads. Wise men, thereat, humble and unpresumptuous
are. But see the friendship which obtains between the
cup and the flask. Lip against lip are they, and twixt
them ever flows the blood.

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