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Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.

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

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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.

FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)

One half so precious as the stuff they sell.

FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)

And when like her, oh, Saki, you shall pass.

FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)

That sallow cheek of hers to' incarnadine.

FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)

When you and I behind the Veil are past.

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