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To find great Jamshid's world-reflecting bowl

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To find great Jamshid's world-reflecting bowl by Omar Khayyam

To find great Jamshid's world-reflecting bowl
I compassed sea and land, and viewed the whole;
But, when I asked the wary sage, I learned
That bowl was my own body, and my soul!

Form: Heroic Couplet

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