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Youth is the time to pay court to the vine,

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Youth is the time to pay court to the vine, by Omar Khayyam

Youth is the time to pay court to the vine,
To quaff the cup, with revellers to recline;
A flood of water once laid waste the earth,
Hence learn to lay you waste with floods of wine.

Form: Epigram

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