Ah, fill the Cup:—what boots it to repeat How Time is slipping underneath our Feet: Unborn To-morrow, and dead Yesterday, Why fret about them if To-day be sweet!

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XL

Date / Period

c. 11th-12th century

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Humorous

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https://www.gutenberg.org/files/246/246-h/246-h.htm

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