When Allah yoked the courses of the sun,

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When Allah yoked the courses of the sun, by Omar Khayyam

When Allah yoked the courses of the sun,
And launched the Pleiades their race to run,
My lot was fixed in fate's high chancery;
Then why blame me for wrong that fate has done?

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