'Tis but a day we sojourn here below,

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'Tis but a day we sojourn here below, by Omar Khayyam

'Tis but a day we sojourn here below,
And all the gain we get is grief and woe,
And then, leaving life's riddles all unsolved,
And burdened with regrets, we have to go.

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