Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar KhayyamAbout author
- Author's profession: Poet
- Born: May 18, 1048
- Died: December 4, 1131
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Time wastes too fast : every letter I trace tells me with what rapidity Life follows my pen ; the days and hours of it, more precious, my dear Jenny! than the rubies about thy neck, are flying over our heads like light clouds of a windy day, never to return more -- every thing presses on -- whilst thou are twisting that lock, -- see! it grows grey ; and every time I kiss thy hand to bid adieu, and every absence which follows it, are preludes to that eternal separation which we are shortly to...
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