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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.

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

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