When life has fled, and we rest in the tomb,

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When life has fled, and we rest in the tomb, by Omar Khayyam

When life has fled, and we rest in the tomb,
They'll place a pair of bricks to mark our tomb;
And, a while after, mould our dust to bricks,
To furnish forth some other person's tomb!

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