Thy body is a tent, where harbourage

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Thy body is a tent, where harbourage by Omar Khayyam

Thy body is a tent, where harbourage
The Sultan spirit takes for one brief age;
When he departs, comes the tent-pitcher death,
Strikes it, and onward moves, another stage.

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