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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Chapter 4 (Part 19 of 19)

LXXIV

Ah, Moon of my Delight who know’st no wane,

The Moon of Heav’n is rising once again:

   How oft hereafter rising shall she look

Through this same Garden after me—in vain!

LXXV

And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass

Among the Guests Star-scatter’d on the Grass,

   And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot

Where I made one—turn down an empty Glass!