This rolling hostelry we call the world, where light and

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This rolling hostelry we call the world, where light and by Omar Khayyam

This rolling hostelry we call the world, where light and
darkness alternate, is but the ruin of a Jamshid's entertainment
of a hundred Kings, or e'en a faint memento
of a host of hunters like to Bahram's self.

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