Poetry Friday: selected lines by Omar Khayyam

Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly --- and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

- Omar Khayyam

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