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'Tis well to drink, and leave anxiety

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'Tis well to drink, and leave anxiety by Omar Khayyam

'Tis well to drink, and leave anxiety
For what is past, and what is yet to be;
Our prisoned spirits, lent us for a day,
A while from season's bondage shall go free!

Form: Quatrain

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