The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep, They told their comrades, and to Sleep return'd.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XXIX
c. 11th-12th century
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