Though my body be beautiful, and the perfume it exhales

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Though my body be beautiful, and the perfume it exhales by Omar Khayyam

Though my body be beautiful, and the perfume it exhales
agreeable, though the color of my face rival that
of the tulip, and my figure be supple as the cypress,
it has not been demonstrated why my celestial author
placed me upon this earth.

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