When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives,

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When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives, by Omar Khayyam

When Khayyam quittance at Death's hand receives,
And sheds his outworn life, as trees their leaves,
Full gladly will he sift this world away,
Ere dustmen sift his ashes in their sieves.

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