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Oh, Thou who Man of baser Earth didst make,
And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake:
For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man
Is blacken'd — Man's forgiveness give — and take!

— Omar Khayyám FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)

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