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 flutter—and the Bird is on the Wing.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza VII
c. 11th-12th century
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