Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence!
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Another and another Cup to drown The Memory of this Impertinence!
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XXXVI (variant)
c. 11th-12th century
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