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  Speaker 1: Section one of Omar re Sung. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: by Kathy Barrett. Omar Resung by Charles G. Blandon being
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  Speaker 1: a verse rendering of the prose translation of the Rubayat
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  Speaker 1: of Omar Khayam by Justin Huntley MacCarthy the Blue Sky Press, Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Of this book there had been printed two hundred copies
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  Speaker 1: on Van Gelder handmade paper, and twenty five copies on
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  Speaker 1: japan vellum, this copy being number eighty seven. Section one
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  Speaker 1: verses one to eighty. Since sorrow is his lot, how
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  Speaker 1: happy man must be when death refuses, not his swift benignity.
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  Speaker 1: But oh how happy sweet The dust that hurries by,
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  Speaker 1: or trod beneath thy feet has yet no breath to sigh.
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  Speaker 1: Eternity is dumb, a sphinx, unto our prayers alike to
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  Speaker 1: all who come. She only sits and stares. And yet
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  Speaker 1: behind those eyes is thought of THEE and me. Perchance
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  Speaker 1: in silence lies enough of destiny Sol's wine. I would
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  Speaker 1: not live in this unfeeling state. In every cup I
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  Speaker 1: give an ostage unto fate when I no more can drink. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: nothing shall I fear. Although upon the brink of this
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  Speaker 1: dissenting sphere thou art my use of flower, thy mouth
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  Speaker 1: is set with pearls. Thou hast me in thy power.
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  Speaker 1: Thou rose of dancing girls. And why because my bloom
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  Speaker 1: I love all rose as well, the thorn that counsels gloom,
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  Speaker 1: the petals that dispel in this wide world of care.
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  Speaker 1: I sought a resting place, but only rested where I
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  Speaker 1: looked into thy face. Thy beauty was to me like
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  Speaker 1: an oasis, lone, and in the heart of thee the
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  Speaker 1: fount that fed my own. Think you the date he
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  Speaker 1: counts all the cups I drain of small account must
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  Speaker 1: be such idle work and vain for ever he has
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  Speaker 1: known that I would drink my wine. Oh, let it
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  Speaker 1: not be shown I question his design. Come hither, sweet,
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  Speaker 1: and bring a flagon of the best, that I may
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  Speaker 1: drown the sting that rankles in my breast. Fill up
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  Speaker 1: the glass again before the potter old to please the
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  Speaker 1: needs of men, makes flagons of my mold drench me.
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  Speaker 1: When I am dead with my most pleasant wine, Let
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  Speaker 1: no long prayers be said, sing lyrics of the vine.
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  Speaker 1: And when you seek my shade, if you shall seek me, dear,
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  Speaker 1: remember how they fade? Who have no lovers here? Who
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  Speaker 1: cares to prophesy? Of what shall happen to morrow? If
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  Speaker 1: we shall live or die, or dwell with joy or sorrow,
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  Speaker 1: delightful star, drink deep of wine the while tis flowing.
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  Speaker 1: How long the dead do sleep? There is no way
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  Speaker 1: of knowing. Let whoso loves be proud to call some
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  Speaker 1: heart his own when cares upon him crowd, Ye shall
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  Speaker 1: not be alone. Let fortune fly the door to never
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  Speaker 1: more return. They only sweet, are poor whose altars fail
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  Speaker 1: to burn. The true philosopher sets not his heart on gold,
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  Speaker 1: since wealth is but a birr within his garments fold
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  Speaker 1: a snake that deeply stings, the breast that warms to life,
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  Speaker 1: a dragon of the springs and higher paths of strife. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: beloved one, the season of the rose. How hath the
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  Speaker 1: golden sun exiled the traitor snows? How happy too am
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  Speaker 1: I in summer? Such as thine thou art, my laughing sky,
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  Speaker 1: my music, and my wine. Come speak and tell me true,
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  Speaker 1: what have I done to thee that thou, o weal,
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  Speaker 1: shouldst do such grindings unto me? From town to town,
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  Speaker 1: I rove my bread, an idle dream, my roof the kindly, grove,
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  Speaker 1: my wine, the laughing stream. I passed a potter gray
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  Speaker 1: and saw what he saw, not that twas my father's clay.
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  Speaker 1: He fashioned to a pot, And when he glanced aside,
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  Speaker 1: I kissed the gentle earth as he had kissed his bride.
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  Speaker 1: Say what our kiss is worth? Man like? Unto a
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  Speaker 1: glass his soul, the wine that fills a hollow reed,
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  Speaker 1: where past what strains of life he wills? Or yet
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  Speaker 1: a lantern gay, wherein a light is trimmed, that soon
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  Speaker 1: shall burn away and leave its husk be dimm'd. Since life,
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  Speaker 1: so niggard, is in dealing with mankind, but momentary bliss
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  Speaker 1: in its short span. We find our hopes, our strivings,
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  Speaker 1: claim the substance of the heart. Too late, too late,
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  Speaker 1: We came too soon too soon. Depart, o weal a circumstance,
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  Speaker 1: an thou most stubborn fate.
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  Speaker 2: What matters?
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  Speaker 1: If it chance the heavens be seven or eight, Be
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  Speaker 1: happy while you may. The present is your staff to
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  Speaker 1: morrow yesterday? I give such dreams the laugh, o poet.
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  Speaker 1: Why this grief for things undone or done? Why bind
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  Speaker 1: into thy sheep remorseful tears for one forgiveness mercy, they
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  Speaker 1: for those whose sin were made repent, And go thy way,
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  Speaker 1: and be no more afraid. No one hath passed behind
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  Speaker 1: the veil that hideth God, and none may ever find
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  Speaker 1: the path no man has trod. The bosom of the
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  Speaker 1: earth is our last resting spot. What dreams therein have
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  Speaker 1: birth our sleep remembers? Not fill up? Fill up the
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  Speaker 1: bowl and yet another measure, and I'll divorce my soul
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  Speaker 1: from everything but pleasure, the daughter of the vine, I'll
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  Speaker 1: set to woo a season. Fill up the bowl with wine,
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  Speaker 1: and lock the door to reason, beloved, full of grace
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  Speaker 1: of witcheries and wiles. Come, let me see thy face,
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  Speaker 1: thy dimples, and thy smiles. I can no more refrain
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  Speaker 1: from gazing at thee dear than turn this cup and
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  Speaker 1: gain the wine I scatter here of wisdom and of wit,
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  Speaker 1: seek thou the company, And rather than to sit with
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  Speaker 1: fools thy country, flee the poison of the wives. If
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  Speaker 1: offered to thee, drink the antidote despise. If fools tip
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  Speaker 1: off the wink my well beloved one to me again
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  Speaker 1: is kind may all her days the sun as mine.
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  Speaker 1: The shadows find she gave me one bright smile, a
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  Speaker 1: fleeting glance. She gave thinking no doubt. The while that
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  Speaker 1: straws the drowning save the Koraan which men name the
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  Speaker 1: book of Holy writ grows musty in the fame of
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  Speaker 1: truths that laugh at it. The while the verses of
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  Speaker 1: the motto on my cup are luminous with love and
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  Speaker 1: sweet to those who sup count not yourself too good
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  Speaker 1: in putting by the wine, and than in haughty mood
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  Speaker 1: with greater evils, dine true temperance is built upon a
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  Speaker 1: broader plan. They only merit guilt who put aside the man?
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  Speaker 1: Oh would that I might drink of living truth? So
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  Speaker 1: deep the tomb to which I sink grows fragrant with
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  Speaker 1: my sleep. I may not know the plan for which
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  Speaker 1: I was designed, But let me waft o'er man an
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  Speaker 1: araby of mind arise. Whatever power gave man ascendancy, this
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  Speaker 1: is the place and hour that he should free man be.
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  Speaker 1: Should man condemn the white who does as he designed?
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  Speaker 1: Can he condemn the light he kindled.
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  Speaker 3: In the mind.
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  Speaker 1: Than some true heart. What more on earth doth mortal
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  Speaker 1: need say? What the stormless shore of any hope or creed,
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  Speaker 1: If one call not his own a friend who loves
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  Speaker 1: him well, the heart that beats alone encircles all of
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  Speaker 1: hell destruction is thy scheme, thou juggernaut of faith, Alike
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  Speaker 1: the hope and dream, the lowly and the great, thou
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  Speaker 1: crushest in thy path, as they were nothing worth until
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  Speaker 1: to please thy wrath. One mighty tomb is earth. When
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  Speaker 1: this green earth is gay and bounding is the blood.
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  Speaker 1: When suns with cheerful ray, this fair green earth do flood,
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  Speaker 1: Let me with pleasant friends, this happy green earth roam ere.
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  Speaker 1: All of pleasure ends in this green earth our home.
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  Speaker 1: Each morn at break of day, the busy world I meet,
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  Speaker 1: while fast do run away my dreams with lightsome feet.
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  Speaker 1: Yet in the presence Lord of those forgetting thee let,
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  Speaker 1: thy uplifted word still rear a home for me. In
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  Speaker 1: every cup of pleasure we find the rue of grief.
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  Speaker 1: In every golden measure is found one bitter leaf. And
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  Speaker 1: we can never fashion a paradise so fair. But some
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  Speaker 1: old friend of passion shall climb and haunt us there
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  Speaker 1: choose thou the middle ground, whereon belief shall stand deem,
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  Speaker 1: not the known, as sound, the unknown merely sand. So
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  Speaker 1: shall thy strength be such. Whatever blast may fall, loss
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  Speaker 1: cannot harm thee much, nor rob thee of thy all
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  Speaker 1: from those who never fail to babble, turn aside e'n
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  Speaker 1: from the nightingale. Thy inmost secrets, hide what hells, what
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  Speaker 1: heavens lie in hearts, that none may see, what griefs,
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  Speaker 1: what joys go by in masks unceasingly, since death doth
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  Speaker 1: come so soon to shatter us like glass. Yet while
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  Speaker 1: it is the noon of youth that babbles pass, the
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  Speaker 1: world to us should be a happy dwelling place, and
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  Speaker 1: the proud soul stand free in thought's great market place.
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  Speaker 1: Oh long, among the roses, I lingered deep in thought,
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  Speaker 1: in all the garden closes, I found nought that I
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  Speaker 1: sought the one and perfect beauty my soul desired to see. Perchance,
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  Speaker 1: twas only duty that stirred the heart of the me.
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  Speaker 1: As bright quick silver slips, so runs this life away,
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  Speaker 1: and all our many ships return no more for aye,
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  Speaker 1: o earth, thou cheating dream, O life that trouble brings
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  Speaker 1: by what resplendent stream, may sorrow fold her wings. The
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  Speaker 1: slaves of love are we in whom we fondly trust, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: happy sprites, if he vouchsafed to us a crust let.
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  Speaker 1: Others worship fame or any god they choose. But I
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  Speaker 1: will kindle flame to love and to the muse. Praise
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  Speaker 1: not the skies, nor blame for any weal or woe,
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  Speaker 1: since they are to the same eternal ocean flow as
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  Speaker 1: that to which you tend. The stars are merely dreams
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  Speaker 1: that twinkle to their end adown what mystic streams, though
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  Speaker 1: with the morning's wings aspiring thought may fly the still
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  Speaker 1: elusive springs of life beyond us lie subdued, chagrined. Alone
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  Speaker 1: Again to earth we fall, And in the little known
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  Speaker 1: salute the Sphinx of all, Oh, lost in love to day,
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  Speaker 1: and sundered from the chain of our gross selves, we
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  Speaker 1: may that highest house attain, wherein the soul, arrayed in
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  Speaker 1: its celestial power, may question, unafraid the action and the hour.
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  Speaker 1: What spirit in this wine gives music to my tongue?
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  Speaker 1: What eloquence divine as I again were young? Lo miracles
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  Speaker 1: unmask and visions of the truth within this cup doth
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  Speaker 1: bask I swear immortal youth. Each day is but a
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  Speaker 1: place where we may sleep and dine, a bright and
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  Speaker 1: happy space, wherein to sip our wine. A few halts
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  Speaker 1: more and lo the desert everywhere, and none returns to
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  Speaker 1: show he sleeps not soundly. There behold the rose of dawn,
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  Speaker 1: O fountain of my bliss. The purple night is gone
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  Speaker 1: to other lands than this. Awake thy lute with mirth,
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  Speaker 1: while life within us burns her once tis quenched to
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  Speaker 1: earth our day no more returns YEA in this crumbling
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  Speaker 1: tower which is myself, Do I serene? Await the hour
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  Speaker 1: wherein at last I die? Thus am I free from fear,
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  Speaker 1: from sorrow, hope, desire, So rise above the sphere of earth, air, water, fire,
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  Speaker 1: unfaith from faith, untruth from truth, belief from doubt. A
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  Speaker 1: breath divides forsooth the all we wore about. Why wrangle
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  Speaker 1: for an hour or waste a single breath, since breath
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  Speaker 1: the only power that keeps sweet life from death. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: most entrancing knight, whereof the moon is queen. What kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of delight like this was ever seen? How nightingales do
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  Speaker 1: sing and fragrant zephyr's stir, Come forth my soul, and
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  Speaker 1: bring sweet holy thoughts of her. Now every blossom SIPs
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  Speaker 1: the dew that twilight brings. Why not unto my lips
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  Speaker 1: the dew of sweeter springs beloved? Go not yet? The
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  Speaker 1: hour is not at hand when sleep bids us forget
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  Speaker 1: the dreams of this fair land. O Thou, who knowest
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  Speaker 1: all the heart's inmost desires, rekindle Ere I fall my
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  Speaker 1: temple's altar fires. Give me the strength to throw the
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  Speaker 1: dross of life from me, and let me plainly know
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  Speaker 1: the paths that lead to thee. Upon the crumbled wall
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  Speaker 1: of once a city great, I heard a raven call
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  Speaker 1: unto a skull of state, O king, where art thou now?
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  Speaker 1: And where thy glory flown? What crown upon thy brow?
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  Speaker 1: What trumpets for thee blown?
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  Speaker 2: O like?
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  Speaker 1: Unto the wind that o'er the desert blows, the days
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  Speaker 1: leave me behind in memnon like repose. No more I
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  Speaker 1: vex my soul with unsubstantial things, the moment gone, the
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  Speaker 1: dull that any other brings. The pearl of greatest price
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  Speaker 1: is mind, where none may know, and with a strange
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  Speaker 1: dece the perfect gem doth glow thy riddle. Love is
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  Speaker 1: such the sphynx is left behind. Since those who haunt
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  Speaker 1: thee much are blindest of the blind. This wisdom I
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  Speaker 1: consign to you as nothing lacking. No man doth put
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  Speaker 1: new wine in pig skins, old and cracking. Not being young,
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  Speaker 1: I drink a wine as old as I am, so
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  Speaker 1: laugh at youth to think how it unseated. Priam, inform
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  Speaker 1: me o, my soul, why this poor house of clay
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  Speaker 1: was reared to be thy goal for one such fleeting day?
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  Speaker 1: What rest may here be found? What happiness is here? Depart?
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  Speaker 1: And let this ground return unto its sphere. This is
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  Speaker 1: our day of pleasure. Come push the cup aside, and
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  Speaker 1: from a larger measure, pour down the ruby tide. If
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  Speaker 1: working days we buy us but cups of common girth,
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  Speaker 1: let double draft supply us. On days of double mirth.
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  Speaker 1: Few friends give me or one some David of the heart,
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  Speaker 1: to whom all pleasures run, All sorrows are apart, a
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  Speaker 1: sweet and genial soul in whom repose to find an
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  Speaker 1: ever lofty goal and solace to the mind. Since life
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  Speaker 1: such sorrow yields, and joy is on the wing away
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  Speaker 1: to pleasant fields for strength. While yet tis spring. Say
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  Speaker 1: to the grass is green, O, brothers, give me rest
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  Speaker 1: ere your sweet spikes be seen close set above my breast.
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  Speaker 1: Proteus dwells within the essence of the grape, and now
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  Speaker 1: resembles sin. And now a perry's shape. Think not that
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  Speaker 1: he is dead because he slumbers here. He simply schemes
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  Speaker 1: instead how he shall reappear. I have no time for hate.
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  Speaker 1: If men will be unjust, I should dishonor fate to
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  Speaker 1: strike them to the dust. Enough it is for me
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  Speaker 1: to let the gods condemn my virtues. They must be
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  Speaker 1: my triumphs over them. Oh come, let us disdain the
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  Speaker 1: round of dismal cares, and our sad hearts sustain through
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  Speaker 1: light and happy airs where merriment doth pour his flagons
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  Speaker 1: to the brim. There let our spirits soar and drain
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  Speaker 1: the cup with him. Puppets are we, it seems, amusing
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  Speaker 1: some great power, who, in the play of dreams, requires
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  Speaker 1: us for an hour. We are what things we are,
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  Speaker 1: We act the part he gave, And from this whirling
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  Speaker 1: star the exit is the grave. Mohammedan and jew and
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  Speaker 1: Christian and the rest the same mirage pursue in hoping
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  Speaker 1: to be blessed. Yet in the mind of him whose
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  Speaker 1: thought is ever free is doubt that bodies dim attain much. Brilliancy.
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  Speaker 1: I cannot tell thee dear the meaning of this dream.
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  Speaker 1: I only know that here we drift upon a stream
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  Speaker 1: that flows. We know not where, we have no clue from.
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  Speaker 1: Whence I know that thou art fair, and love shall
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  Speaker 1: lead us hence that which we cannot know. Why waste
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  Speaker 1: the time to find so long as roses blow? Why
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  Speaker 1: be to them so blind? Enjoy the earth while here,
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  Speaker 1: and let the future rest, nor seek another's sphere, when
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  Speaker 1: this way be the best. Behold the God of wine,
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  Speaker 1: with flagon and with cup, our souls are at his shrine,
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  Speaker 1: the incense wreathing up what fragrance and what glow, what
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  Speaker 1: rubies given us? Such wealth makes care and woe and
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  Speaker 1: want ridiculous. Far as the morning fleas has been my
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  Speaker 1: pathway too, And yet in realms and seas I found
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  Speaker 1: me nothing new. Man is the same world o'er, and
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  Speaker 1: nature too, the same as here upon this shore a
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  Speaker 1: shadow and a name. Once in a dream a sage
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  Speaker 1: did come to me and say, O, friend, why blot
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  Speaker 1: the page by sleeping. While tis day the dead alone
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  Speaker 1: may keep their couch without regret. The rose of joy
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  Speaker 1: and sleep has never blossomed. Yet, Seek ever what is fair,
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  Speaker 1: Drink ever what is sweet? And tread the dust of
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  Speaker 1: care beneath your merry feet. Why sew for pardon? Here
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  Speaker 1: for quaffing joy so brief? The gods in their own
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  Speaker 1: sphere love laughter more than grief. If life to us
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  Speaker 1: were plain and death in open book, we might not
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  Speaker 1: strive to gain the heights for which we look, but
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  Speaker 1: leaving all to God, by him be counted not, or
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  Speaker 1: what the barren sod of weedy rubbish wrought. Though heaven
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  Speaker 1: and earth should fall and stars show not their faces,
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  Speaker 1: my soul would still invade some still undreamed of spaces.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere a light would shine to which I should be
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  Speaker 1: fleeing to find that there my dream, oh long had
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  Speaker 1: lost its being. Farewell to Ramazan. The hour of mirth
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  Speaker 1: is come. Roll up, old al Koran, and be no
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  Speaker 1: longer dumb. Let maids bring forth the wine, and sing
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  Speaker 1: and dance and play. The very grass shall shine with
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  Speaker 1: ruby dew to day. Although I have not strung the
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  Speaker 1: pearls of his decrees still sails my ship among the
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  Speaker 1: islands of his seas. What wrath can we assail of mercy?
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  Speaker 1: Why despair? I have not worshiped bald, nor harried thee
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  Speaker 1: with prayer. Oh, once this jar of rose was beautiful
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  Speaker 1: with life, a lovely maid who knows perchance a bride
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  Speaker 1: and wife. That handle was her arm about some neck
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  Speaker 1: that clung with true affection, warm when this old world
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  Speaker 1: was young. Beat not at every gate for refuge from
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  Speaker 1: thy grief, But patient, be and wait, Since life at
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  Speaker 1: best is brief. What destiny decrees shall be thy lot
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  Speaker 1: and mine no more, no less we sees of shadow
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  Speaker 1: or of shine, twilights and dawns and noons. Ere we
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  Speaker 1: were born did bloom, and many many moons invest the
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  Speaker 1: fragrant gloom. Be careful, therefore, where your idle footsteps tread
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  Speaker 1: the very dust is fair with beauty that is dead.
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  Speaker 1: This day may be the last that life shall dwell
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  Speaker 1: with thee. Since he doth drney fast in his far home,
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  Speaker 1: to be waste not the time in sleep, the while
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  Speaker 1: he is thy guest, thy house, in order keep and
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  Speaker 1: soothe him with the best. The future tis not mine,
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  Speaker 1: the past a dream's device to morrow's sun may shine
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  Speaker 1: upon thy brow of ice. The present moment, then, is
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  Speaker 1: least unto our needs. Wherein we fare with men and
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  Speaker 1: do our little deeds. Kabas and temples rise, and countless
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  Speaker 1: gods are sought, and under many skies are many wonders wrought.
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  Speaker 1: And yet all lovely things wherever shines the sun are
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  Speaker 1: the uplifting wings. Whereby we soar to one, Let not
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  Speaker 1: thy cheek grow wain with thoughts of future woe, serenely
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  Speaker 1: journey on, nor fear the common foe. Thy cup of
• 20:52
  Speaker 1: earthly bliss as Heaven intended drain. The ghosts of joy
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  Speaker 1: as we miss, are hollow eyed as Cain. The hearth
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  Speaker 1: is cleanly swept. Our souls, my dear at peace, and
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  Speaker 1: every clause is kept of Love's immortal lease, forgotten every
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  Speaker 1: woe the world was wont to bring, forgiven every foe,
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  Speaker 1: and healed his every sting end of section one, verses
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  Speaker 1: one to.
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  Speaker 4: Eighty Section two of Omar resung. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 4: by Noel Badrian omar Re sung by Charles G. Blandon
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  Speaker 4: being a verse rendering of the prose translation of the
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: Rubaiyat of Omarchaum by Justin Huntly McCarthy, section two, verses
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  Speaker 4: eighty one to one hundred sixty of what a veil
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  Speaker 4: is prayer, If that the heart be proud, vain words
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  Speaker 4: are but as air or pockets in a shroud. Sincerity
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  Speaker 4: that springs from souls devoid of guile is mightier than
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  Speaker 4: kings to win fair heav'n's smile put not on the raiment.
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  Speaker 4: The hypocrite doth whar, nor once outside the tent, make
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  Speaker 4: loud and vacant prayer such false. The gods despise, and
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  Speaker 4: heav'n from such is free. Vast Hell itself denies, it
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  Speaker 4: holds hypocrisy. Circles of nothingness are set to our account,
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  Speaker 4: the fraction growing less the higher we do. Mount man's
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  Speaker 4: knowledges but naught, his wisdom, vain as dreams, the subsidies
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  Speaker 4: of thought, but evanescent gleams, unsatisfied desire and hopes no
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  Speaker 4: time may fill burn in me like to fire and
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  Speaker 4: waste away my will? What ashes men become to please
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  Speaker 4: the Sphinx in thee beneath what Heaven's dumb demanding love
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  Speaker 4: from me, since Earth can only give a few bright
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  Speaker 4: days to thee, O poet, Freely live and sip the
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  Speaker 4: sweets that be. The end is nothingness and short this
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  Speaker 4: mundane way. Act promptly and possess, and while you live,
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  Speaker 4: be gay. O. Long ago the book of heaven was
• 23:36
  Speaker 4: written sealed, and none therein may look, and nothing be reveal'd.
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: With dreams and emptiness, we fill the jar of day,
• 23:45
  Speaker 4: the while we strangely guess what boots the part we
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: play in some most humble cot. I rather dwell with
• 23:55
  Speaker 4: THEE than where I saw THEE. Not an envied king
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  Speaker 4: to be this, then shall be my creed. Come whatsoever
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  Speaker 4: may love. Only shall me lead, and thou light up
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  Speaker 4: the way. The riddle of the Sphinx is knowledge hid
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  Speaker 4: in thee. And yet what mortal drinks the draft he
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  Speaker 4: cannot see. If thought might dig so deep as lie
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  Speaker 4: its crystal springs, the riddle would not keep, nor hope
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  Speaker 4: fold up her wings. Resign thyself to fate. No other rhousevails.
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  Speaker 4: He who learned not to wait in every project fails,
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  Speaker 4: And if in waiting long death finds thee ere success.
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  Speaker 4: Remember to be strong is most of happiness. Who loves
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  Speaker 4: you he is kin. If your own kith betray, let
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: them be strangers in this drama of a day. If
• 24:58
  Speaker 4: poison cures you drink. If antidotes work, ill reject them,
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  Speaker 4: And so think that thinking shall not kill lo spring
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: is come, And now from bondage of the cold is
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: led each happy bough as Moses lead of old? What
• 25:18
  Speaker 4: lands of promised loom in all these blossoms white where
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: later there shall bloom? What fruitage of the light? Long
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: have I been of wine? The singing devotee yet made
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: it thrall supine to sweet philosophy? And therefore is the
• 25:37
  Speaker 4: grape the subject of my will? I snare me and escape,
• 25:43
  Speaker 4: and am the master still? Oh, grieve no more, nor
• 25:49
  Speaker 4: strive to lose or gain thee gold. The bee, unto
• 25:54
  Speaker 4: his hive, lugs more than he can hold. Why gather
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: so much wealth that others may be drones? To laugh
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  Speaker 4: at thee in stealth and fatten on thy groans? Since
• 26:07
  Speaker 4: it is ever plain from this clay house we flee
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  Speaker 4: the joys we may not gain. Why seek so eagerly
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  Speaker 4: the soul is Lord divine, and n alone will grieve
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  Speaker 4: if dross I claim as mine and life's good treasure
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  Speaker 4: leave Whose eyes but melt in rains when you are absent, Dear,
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  Speaker 4: whose soul sits not in chains until you reappear, whose
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: heart that does not bleed as though it exiled were,
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: And yet you pay no heed to any worshiper, if
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  Speaker 4: they who never sin, but cast at us the stone
• 26:49
  Speaker 4: we shall not gather in enough of scars to own.
• 26:53
  Speaker 4: Let hypocrites beware, lest virtue them in dight. Sometimes the
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: noonday fair in sight our blackest night, all joy is incomplete,
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  Speaker 4: that is alone employed, But o how more than sweet
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  Speaker 4: when cheerfully enjoyed. The whole of life is not in
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  Speaker 4: simply drawing breath, but being well forgot when we lie
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  Speaker 4: cold in death. The bridge from birth to death is
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  Speaker 4: but a hair's breadth wide, and rocks with every breath
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  Speaker 4: above a darksome tide. The soul is but a dream
• 27:32
  Speaker 4: that ever urges on uprises that black stream, and lo,
• 27:38
  Speaker 4: the world is gone. Pale. Death in this world's gear
• 27:44
  Speaker 4: makes all men poor and mean. Therefore, in thy career,
• 27:48
  Speaker 4: build up the soul's domain from passion, free and dross
• 27:53
  Speaker 4: enrich thy heart and mind. So dying leave not loss,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: but gain of thee behind. I cannot think that he
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  Speaker 4: who made this cup will break, unless perchance there be
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  Speaker 4: a better for my sake. These lovely faces fade, such
• 28:11
  Speaker 4: is the great design. In bowing to the shade, I
• 28:15
  Speaker 4: worship the divine. Through drunkenness of earth. This dread of
• 28:22
  Speaker 4: death doth come. A tree of no true worth alone
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  Speaker 4: bears fruit so dumb. But that immortal tree which doth
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: the soul sustain, still bursts to bloom for thee, and
• 28:35
  Speaker 4: its sweet fruit doth rain. The tulip her bright cup
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: refound in this new year to the glad sun holds
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: up a great symbol of good cheer. Therefore with beauty,
• 28:48
  Speaker 4: dwell and quaff. The wine of spring brooks, laugh, birds sing,
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  Speaker 4: buds swell, and joy is on the wing. One drop
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: of wine is more than many kingdoms dead. The jar
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  Speaker 4: from which we pour than hearts encased in lead, A
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: thousand coins of gold. Quench not the fires of thirst.
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  Speaker 4: Bring me a vintage old, and I will crown it first.
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  Speaker 4: Grieve not when I am dead, but gather round my tomb,
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  Speaker 4: Rejoice with me instead, and scatter fragment, bloom alive. I
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  Speaker 4: wake no tear in death, be it the same. I
• 29:29
  Speaker 4: still would bring you cheer. When I am but a name,
• 29:35
  Speaker 4: no shield against the thrust of fate's sharp spear is found.
• 29:41
  Speaker 4: Glory and gold and lust of fame fall to the ground.
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Greatness only the good or great, since they through honest
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: hardihood last longest in the fray. I set my heart
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: to find the land of happiness, and many realms declin'd
• 30:02
  Speaker 4: as lacking might to bless care guard at every gate,
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  Speaker 4: and want within was pale. The more I fled from fate,
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  Speaker 4: the more I seem'd to fail. Forgive me O my soul.
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  Speaker 4: If at thy feet I lay the trophies of the
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: goal of this proud bit of clay. That they are vain,
• 30:24
  Speaker 4: I fear and better unbestow'd. Yet thou didst journey here
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  Speaker 4: and make me thy abode who keeps his heart content
• 30:36
  Speaker 4: are He is the Lord of peace, to whom all
• 30:39
  Speaker 4: joys are sent, whose kingdom shall not cease, tranquility of mind,
• 30:44
  Speaker 4: delicious sleeps. He knows twin rubies. Man may find not
• 30:49
  Speaker 4: where the miser goes to drink wine to be gay.
• 30:55
  Speaker 4: This is my scheme of life. Besides no heed to
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: pay to creeds that bring but strife, I said, unto
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: the bride, what is thy portion? Sweet? She said, when
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  Speaker 4: at thy side, thy happy? Look I meet these millions
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: of the light. How soon to sleep in death where
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: no stars shine, in night, where stirs no balmy breath,
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  Speaker 4: in earth serene and dumb with silence, old as time
• 31:25
  Speaker 4: bid pleasure. Therefore come and weave her laughing rhyme. Unrest
• 31:32
  Speaker 4: and sorrow haunt my heart both night and day. To
• 31:36
  Speaker 4: think that, pale and gaunt a ghost pursues my way.
• 31:40
  Speaker 4: I may not bar his path. He journeys where I
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: go in thrall my life, he hath and fills my
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: cup with woe. When he thus seed did so, he
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: knew what fruit would bear. He chose the soil to
• 31:56
  Speaker 4: grow and set his limits there. The love as he
• 32:00
  Speaker 4: shall reap is that which he desires. Good grain his
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: bins may heap, or rubbish feed his fires. What time
• 32:11
  Speaker 4: I leaned to prayer and pangs of fasting new methought
• 32:15
  Speaker 4: twas mine to share of heaven. I dreamed of you,
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: O penitential tears, O high resolves for good. How Heaven
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: disappears in things misunderstood. Fair faces inspire me like the
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: maid of the vine let beauty, but fire me, and
• 32:36
  Speaker 4: the song is divine? What beacons unlighted? But await the
• 32:41
  Speaker 4: bright spark to lead the benighted from the sorrow of
• 32:44
  Speaker 4: dark as men who cannot know the why that they
• 32:50
  Speaker 4: are here? The potters where a row I heard conversing clear?
• 32:56
  Speaker 4: Where is the potter? Where the buyer? Where is he
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  Speaker 4: who sells? And why this air of chance and mystery?
• 33:06
  Speaker 4: What worthiness is mine? The master potter knows? He fashion
• 33:11
  Speaker 4: me in fine? And why doth not disclose betimes? He
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: shall me break betimes? His hand remold so long as
• 33:20
  Speaker 4: dawn shall wake and earth her orbit hold, said youth
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  Speaker 4: to tipsy age. Old man, dost thou not fear to
• 33:30
  Speaker 4: stain thy final page and loathe the end? So near?
• 33:35
  Speaker 4: Said Age? This book of mine, in merriment, was writ
• 33:39
  Speaker 4: and not with tears but wine. I'll drench the end
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  Speaker 4: of it. A thousand wines there be, and many my
• 33:49
  Speaker 4: muse sings. I cannot judge for thee, nor give thy
• 33:54
  Speaker 4: soul its wings. Choose for thyself, and soar or hobble
• 33:58
  Speaker 4: on the ground. The gods presume no more than point
• 34:02
  Speaker 4: to the profound. Yea passion is the voice of our
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: brute natures. Still we foxlike are from choice, a wolf
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: that seeks his fill, the tiger without heart and prowling
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: for his prey, an ass that plays his part, a
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: dog that loves to bay. Who sent thee sweet to me?
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: O radiant as the dawn? What thought awakened thee? That
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: hither thou wast drawn? Alas how on the wind our
• 34:36
  Speaker 4: roses bright depart? What thorns are left behind to pierce
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: and pain the heart? The lamp of love which Heaven
• 34:46
  Speaker 4: hath set in every heart is as a star that's
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: given to play its brilliant part. What creed can dim
• 34:53
  Speaker 4: its light or add unto its ray. It is the
• 34:57
  Speaker 4: soul of night, and in itself is day. More dear
• 35:03
  Speaker 4: than in the strife. Are arrow's bow and spear more
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: dear to me than life an hundred times more dear
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  Speaker 4: art thou beloved one, all loveliness and light, my soul,
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: my saint, my son, my everything that's bright? How fair
• 35:22
  Speaker 4: the fringes green along this laughing stream, A picture that
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: is seen more often in a dream. Oh, do not
• 35:30
  Speaker 4: crush this bloom in God's own Garden's maid sent hither
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: that the gloom a little season fade, care and cark,
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: cark and care. Such such is man's refrain, laughter, dead
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: tears to spare the king. The king is pain on
• 35:53
  Speaker 4: shoal and reef and bar the only pilot blind sans compass,
• 35:58
  Speaker 4: chart and star. What harbor shall we find? When at
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: death's feet I fall and lie unstripp'd of gear old earth,
• 36:09
  Speaker 4: reclaiming all she loaned my spirit? Here, I pray thee
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: take my clay and shape for wine a cup. The
• 36:18
  Speaker 4: soul that is away may come again to sup make
• 36:23
  Speaker 4: lawful one of all the wishes we express, to tread
• 36:27
  Speaker 4: the golden ball of love and love possess, since there
• 36:31
  Speaker 4: perchance we may the royal jewel find in whose impartial
• 36:36
  Speaker 4: ray the blind no more are blind. Since this short
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: dream must fade, Let me be happy now, for what
• 36:47
  Speaker 4: was pleasure made to be enjoy'd? I vow this Eden
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: is forbid. Then let me turn aside, and those dear
• 36:55
  Speaker 4: regions thrid where freedom doth abide. They who deserve the
• 37:01
  Speaker 4: least to often gain the prize. While beauty weds the beast,
• 37:06
  Speaker 4: and virtue throttled dies in justice rules. The throne is
• 37:12
  Speaker 4: founded deep on greed, true kings or serfs unknown, with
• 37:16
  Speaker 4: but the boon to bleed. Ho a cup of good wine,
• 37:22
  Speaker 4: not a kingdom. Give me to the king of the vine.
• 37:26
  Speaker 4: My allegiance shall be just a smile from his lips
• 37:30
  Speaker 4: is both honor and might. And the moment that slips
• 37:33
  Speaker 4: is a jewel of light. Tis not for riot's sake,
• 37:39
  Speaker 4: Nor that the good I shun that of the cup
• 37:42
  Speaker 4: I make a friend beloved one. Oh No, but that
• 37:47
  Speaker 4: in wine, I from myself may flee, and for an
• 37:51
  Speaker 4: hour divine dream, Thou art kind to me? They say
• 37:58
  Speaker 4: there is a hell for sin? How can they be romances?
• 38:02
  Speaker 4: Please to tell consistent tales to me? Why if there
• 38:06
  Speaker 4: were such place for what was heaven plann'd to be
• 38:10
  Speaker 4: a vacant space as this, my hollow hand appoint no
• 38:16
  Speaker 4: time for prayer, nor set a day aside. Bud's bloom
• 38:21
  Speaker 4: leaves fall, tis fair, tis foul, and moves the tide
• 38:27
  Speaker 4: and runs the wind all days. Think not upon thee art,
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: but what is good? Go praise with an unceasing heart.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: What need of paradise? If mercy were not thine? For
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: all do sin and rise. But through thy grace, divine,
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: what need of hell is there? If thou hast mercy, Lord,
• 38:51
  Speaker 4: Thou art impartial, fair the soul of sweeter accord. Put
• 38:57
  Speaker 4: wisdom by to day, and take the cup in hand,
• 39:01
  Speaker 4: Nor build thee dreams alway that none can understand. Go
• 39:06
  Speaker 4: sell thy silken gear and buy thee cups of mirth.
• 39:10
  Speaker 4: The soul cares not to hear thou art a lord
• 39:13
  Speaker 4: of earth. This month the prophets is perchance tis well
• 39:20
  Speaker 4: tis so, therefore I'll forfeit bliss until my roses blow
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: tis well. Perhaps sometimes sweet pleasures kiss to spurn, that we,
• 39:32
  Speaker 4: with new made rhymes may herald her return to the
• 39:37
  Speaker 4: sound of the flute and the harp's golden voice. Drink
• 39:41
  Speaker 4: the blood of the fruit from the vine of thy choice,
• 39:44
  Speaker 4: Pour a drop on the ground that it never be vex'd,
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: while the heart gives a bound as its size for
• 39:51
  Speaker 4: the next. My merits one by one, my faults by
• 39:57
  Speaker 4: tens I count. Yet he doth set his son his
• 40:01
  Speaker 4: reigns to my account. Feed not the fires of hate
• 40:06
  Speaker 4: with passion of the sod, nor mount unto his gait
• 40:10
  Speaker 4: with less than love for God. I seek thy love alone,
• 40:16
  Speaker 4: subscribing to no creed, the countless sects unknown to me,
• 40:21
  Speaker 4: or but as weeds. The pomp and sounding phrase seem
• 40:25
  Speaker 4: but impending mire along the thorny ways that lead to
• 40:29
  Speaker 4: my desire. When the full cup doth glimmer with the
• 40:34
  Speaker 4: blood tingling wine, lo, the life seems to shimmer of
• 40:39
  Speaker 4: some spirit divine. O, the churlish ones banish from a
• 40:44
  Speaker 4: comrade so bright that the shades of woe vanish, and
• 40:48
  Speaker 4: hope comes with the light. This old caravanseray, this world
• 40:54
  Speaker 4: of shade and light is but the ruined gray of
• 40:58
  Speaker 4: many Jamshid's might a tomb where pillowed deep a hundred
• 41:02
  Speaker 4: baharums lie, where yet unto their sleep, ten thousand yet
• 41:07
  Speaker 4: shall fly. If roses fade and fall, do not the
• 41:13
  Speaker 4: thorns remain, the year cannot recall the sad delights of pain.
• 41:19
  Speaker 4: Though priests and temple go, the lord will love his own.
• 41:23
  Speaker 4: They shall his mercy, know as they have ever known,
• 41:28
  Speaker 4: that I may then enjoy the wine and dancers bring,
• 41:32
  Speaker 4: and may no clouds annoy the morning of my spring. O, maidens,
• 41:37
  Speaker 4: fair and song and flagons of good wine. The time
• 41:41
  Speaker 4: may not be long, but it shall be divine. The
• 41:47
  Speaker 4: shuttle of the skies that weaves the world's untold forgets
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: me as it flies and strips me to the cold,
• 41:55
  Speaker 4: While my good weaver friend doth make his shuttle speed
• 41:59
  Speaker 4: my sorry lot to mend against the winter's need. Vex
• 42:05
  Speaker 4: not thy heart with care, nor let the mind grow sad.
• 42:09
  Speaker 4: They only find despair. Who will not to be glad?
• 42:13
  Speaker 4: Still there are lootes to hear. Still there is wine
• 42:16
  Speaker 4: for thee. Go listen, drink, nor fear to seek. Felicity
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: riches a bubble vain. The winds may blow aside, and
• 42:29
  Speaker 4: nothing that we gain through that great nothing pride the
• 42:33
  Speaker 4: torch of joy? Am I? Or jamsured's crystal cup, or
• 42:37
  Speaker 4: quench'd or broken? Why should I be lifted up? Arise
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: and greet the dawn. Drink heart and happy bee? For
• 42:47
  Speaker 4: soon thou shalt be gone, that now her face may see,
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: and she all morning's heart shall blush thy tomb above,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: when thou hast play'd thy part and lived thy little love.
• 43:02
  Speaker 4: If heaven bread denies, am I not prompt for war?
• 43:06
  Speaker 4: Where honors banner flies there my good forces are eternal?
• 43:11
  Speaker 4: Shame were mine? Did I but think to fail, And
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: in thy sight, divine, discard my spear and mail. What
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: matters it, if life or sweet or bitter bee, time
• 43:25
  Speaker 4: flies so fast, the strife not long can worry thee.
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: Whether at Babylon or nashipour we die, the moon still
• 43:35
  Speaker 4: rolling on shall silver either sky to day, while fortunes
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: rose is scenting every gale. Why on a sea of woes,
• 43:46
  Speaker 4: keep tightly furled the sail. Now, while the wind is right,
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: set all thy canvas free away into the light of opportunity.
• 43:59
  Speaker 4: The month of Rama Razan is dawning in the east.
• 44:02
  Speaker 4: The days of mirth are gone, and every happy feast,
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: the wine up, muffled weights, bright eyes, but haunt in vain.
• 44:12
  Speaker 4: Farewell to love. The gates of pleasure shutter main. The
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: palace where of old great Baharam's feasts were spread, is
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: but a ruin cold, where lordly lions tread. YEA, he
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: who snared his game by death was snared in turn,
• 44:31
  Speaker 4: and all that's left a name half vanish'd on an
• 44:35
  Speaker 4: urn into this whirl of life. Too late we came,
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: since we are baffled in the strife. Hence this setaiety.
• 44:46
  Speaker 4: If hope no fruit may yield. What are its blossoms
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: worth better a fallow field than thus to cumber earth.
• 44:56
  Speaker 4: While of this earth, let me no future demon fear.
• 45:00
  Speaker 4: Bring forth Felicity, and I will wed her here. If she,
• 45:04
  Speaker 4: in aftermath be kept from me apart, I'll wander in
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: her path and somewhat ease the smart yea, that these
• 45:14
  Speaker 4: cheeks may glow, and that these eyes may shine. Companions,
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: Let me know the comradeship of wine with wine, wine,
• 45:24
  Speaker 4: I charge you well, drench me when I die, and
• 45:28
  Speaker 4: from the vine roots hue the palace where I lie.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: A draft of wine is more than Jamshid's golden state,
• 45:38
  Speaker 4: its Perfume's happy store, than Hattim's gifts, more great. The
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  Speaker 4: sigh that wine may bring is sweeter than the mirth
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  Speaker 4: of kings. O. Therefore, cling to that of magic worth.
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  Speaker 4: Clouds gather in the skies, down comes the merry rain.
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  Speaker 4: The dry earth drinks like wise eyes. Let me the
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  Speaker 4: goblet drain, green grows the grass and flowers on hillside
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  Speaker 4: plain and tomb a who will love the showers that
• 46:09
  Speaker 4: coax our dost to bloom. Let not the world deceive,
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  Speaker 4: since its pursuits are vain, nor with the fauner, leave
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  Speaker 4: thy treasury of grain, improve thy time in strife of
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  Speaker 4: lofty deeds and aims, upholding truth with life. The rest
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  Speaker 4: is deaths and fames. The love I offer dear is
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  Speaker 4: ready for the test. What comes I shall not fear,
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  Speaker 4: so thou dost think it best? Whatever pain or grief
• 46:44
  Speaker 4: thou givest me to bear this life, were all too brief,
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  Speaker 4: or thou too wondrous? Fair, O heart, my heart, this gear,
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  Speaker 4: this pomp is but a dream? Why striving journey here again?
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  Speaker 4: Whence the rushing stream. Let fate decide thy path? She
• 47:04
  Speaker 4: will what grief? What gold? What joy? For thee she
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  Speaker 4: hath in she cannot withhold? What tidings from beyond? Has
• 47:15
  Speaker 4: one returned to tell? O hope of hopes? Too fond
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  Speaker 4: are we on dreams? To dwell grieve not? The way
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  Speaker 4: is long, an endless journey. Sweet, Yet in the path
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  Speaker 4: of song the circle grows complete. End of section two,
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  Speaker 4: verses eighty one to one hundred and sixty. Recording by
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  Speaker 4: no Badrian County Offily, Ireland.
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  Speaker 5: Section three of omar Ree's sung This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 5: Omar re sung by Charles G. Blanden, being a verse
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  Speaker 5: rendering of the prose translation of the Rubiat of Omar
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  Speaker 5: Khayam by Justin Huntley McCarthy, section three, verses one sixty
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  Speaker 5: one to two forty. Each day that comes and goes
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  Speaker 5: from life requires a fee, until at last doth close
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  Speaker 5: the world's account with thee. Then gaily pay thy debt,
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  Speaker 5: as thou wert lord of more time scorns, nor has
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  Speaker 5: regret for misers and their store Monarchs, like trees do fall,
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  Speaker 5: and we, like spears of grass, not heeds the lonesome
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  Speaker 5: call of those who bloom and pass. Then why when
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  Speaker 5: suns do shine, should we refuse the light in water?
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  Speaker 5: As in wine is sown the seed of night one
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  Speaker 5: with another day forsooth. There's none in which my heart
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  Speaker 5: forgets to say, in life am I not rich? All
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  Speaker 5: day to me are one with threads of brightness wove,
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  Speaker 5: and all are of the sun. In this sweet wolf
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  Speaker 5: of love, This flesh is chaff yon space of seven
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  Speaker 5: heavens wrought is nothing more. The grace of this short
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  Speaker 5: life is not grasp while you may delight an unsubstantial thing,
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  Speaker 5: and yet a merry wight, a nothing on the wing.
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  Speaker 5: Life is a caravan that passes like a dream, a
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  Speaker 5: faint mirage, O man, the shimmer of a beam. Grieve
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  Speaker 5: not the while you last, nor unborn morrow's fear, For
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  Speaker 5: soon the hour is past. Wherein you tarried? Here old age?
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  Speaker 5: Did I behold forth stagger through the door his prayer
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  Speaker 5: mat loosely rolled. He on his shoulder, bore a flagon
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  Speaker 5: in his hand. Quoth I, how hast thou sinned? Drink
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  Speaker 5: wine and understand? Said he that earth is wind, a
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  Speaker 5: nightingale divine. And to my garden flew and saw my
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  Speaker 5: cup of wine, and saw my roses too. Then sang
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  Speaker 5: she in my ear. Enjoy the sweets that be, For
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  Speaker 5: soon the busy year will scatter thine. And thee he
• 50:44
  Speaker 5: who the universe and its foundations wrought, beset me with
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  Speaker 5: a curse, and stung me with a thought. What ruby
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  Speaker 5: lips to earth, what hearts to dust, he dooms, yea,
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  Speaker 5: we are, but the girth of of all down trodden
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  Speaker 5: blooms YEA like unto a tent is this frail house
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  Speaker 5: of clay wherein the soul is pent and sultan for
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  Speaker 5: a day. The monarch journeys forth when low, the slave
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  Speaker 5: of doom, strikes tent, and its proud worth is raised again.
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  Speaker 5: For whom poured from the hand of heaven. Love exalteth
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  Speaker 5: every heart, and like a precious leaven doth sweeten every smart.
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  Speaker 5: Love is a shield, a spear, defense, and weapon to
• 51:38
  Speaker 5: wherewith to stay old, fear or win. A kingdom knew
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  Speaker 5: when the wind and the sun have expanded the rose
• 51:48
  Speaker 5: and the violet one from her dusky repose lo The
• 51:53
  Speaker 5: vine burgeons too, and the grape is a bud that
• 51:57
  Speaker 5: is storing a dew that shall quicken our blood. The
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  Speaker 5: good know not how sweet God's mercy is to men,
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  Speaker 5: but they with bleeding feet who ask and ask again.
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  Speaker 5: Thou sayest hell is mine, forsooth thy light is dim.
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  Speaker 5: This estimate of thine precludes thy love for him. O heart,
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  Speaker 5: bewildered guest of this frail house of clay, be not
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  Speaker 5: with grief oppressed. The world is thine to day, Joy, mirth,
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  Speaker 5: and song invite thy laughing friends to be forsoon descends
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  Speaker 5: the knight that stills thy house and thee How sweet
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  Speaker 5: is Rhim's lute. When genius lightly plays, and joy no
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  Speaker 5: longer mute awakes a song of praise. Much of the
• 52:56
  Speaker 5: world I know, and most of it is dross. But
• 52:59
  Speaker 5: when bright numbers flow, who thinks upon his loss? Old time,
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  Speaker 5: whose gifts, like rain upon the unjust, fall as on
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  Speaker 5: the just, gives pain and joy to one and all.
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  Speaker 5: This garden of mankind shows me a blighted rose, a bud.
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  Speaker 5: The angry wind can beat, but not on clothes. Caiam,
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  Speaker 5: who sowed the tents of learning for his friends, perforces hurried. Hence,
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  Speaker 5: when his thread breaks or ends, the world impatient cold
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  Speaker 5: thrust him beyond its door. As for a song is
• 53:44
  Speaker 5: sold the slave that serves no more with the right
• 53:50
  Speaker 5: and the fair. In the gardens of spring, let us
• 53:53
  Speaker 5: bury despair with the pomp of a king, Let us
• 53:57
  Speaker 5: laugh by his tomb, let us drink, let us sing,
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  Speaker 5: let us hide him with bloom. In the gardens of spring. Sweet,
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  Speaker 5: Oh sweet, is the wine in a cup that is fair,
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  Speaker 5: with a music divine wafted over it. There Let the wise,
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  Speaker 5: if they will go enlist in the strife. But oh,
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  Speaker 5: bring to me still just the roses of life. Let
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  Speaker 5: beauty be thy aim and sweet simplicity, And in their
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  Speaker 5: golden fame, thy steadfast beacons see fear not if thou
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  Speaker 5: art wise a darker realm than this. No need of paradise.
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  Speaker 5: Here is enough of bliss, This tenement of clay. The
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  Speaker 5: soul soon wearies of, and from it turns away to haunts.
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  Speaker 5: It more doth love. But while these walls of life
• 54:58
  Speaker 5: the stranger guest canta, let them with song be rife,
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  Speaker 5: lest he not long remain unto the mosque. My feet
• 55:09
  Speaker 5: by duties call our lead. But not alone is sweet
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  Speaker 5: what her stern lips have said. Since yet a dearer
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  Speaker 5: voice doth echo in my heart and bids my soul
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  Speaker 5: rejoice long after I depart. Wine is the Earth's red blood.
• 55:30
  Speaker 5: And since the earth us kills, let us pour down
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  Speaker 5: a flood from him who our blood spills o limpid,
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  Speaker 5: sweet and pure, tinted and tinked with rose. There is
• 55:45
  Speaker 5: no better cure than wine for this world's woes. At
• 55:52
  Speaker 5: dawning from the Inn, there came a voice, arise, and
• 55:56
  Speaker 5: fill each cannakin with liquid paradise. Ye tavern haunters up
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  Speaker 5: before old fate doth come to fill your being's cup
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  Speaker 5: with that which strikes you dumb to the radiant pearls
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  Speaker 5: that enchant us, and thrill to the beautiful girls that
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  Speaker 5: enslave us at will drink the blood of the grape,
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  Speaker 5: sing a song of good cheer, lest the tyrants escape
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  Speaker 5: and our chains disappear. When the roses appear, let the
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  Speaker 5: flute's mellow note and the harps golden cheer through the
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  Speaker 5: gay gardens float, while a rose colored wine from the
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  Speaker 5: flagons is poured. That the season divine be divinely adored.
• 56:45
  Speaker 5: When the splendor is fled from the heart of the rose,
• 56:49
  Speaker 5: when the fragrance is dead, where violets repose, Then the
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  Speaker 5: heart of my king, my repentance will scorn, and my
• 56:58
  Speaker 5: soul turn her wing from the ramparts of morn. My
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  Speaker 5: soul and I. Forsooth as accompasses seem one point affixed
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  Speaker 5: to truth, one circling in a dream. Yet soon shall
• 57:14
  Speaker 5: come the hour when we move side by side, when
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  Speaker 5: both shall know the power that bade them once divide,
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  Speaker 5: not knowing whence we came, not knowing where we go,
• 57:30
  Speaker 5: not knowing why the flame within us rages. So what
• 57:35
  Speaker 5: wonder that our fate seems something kin to dust? No
• 57:40
  Speaker 5: trumpet speaks, no gait appears, and all things rust. My
• 57:48
  Speaker 5: heart is filled with sin, O Lord, where is thy light?
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  Speaker 5: So blind am I that in this world I gather Knight,
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  Speaker 5: Thou madest me to be, Thou owest me a debt, which,
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  Speaker 5: if thou payest me, I may be happy. Yet of
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  Speaker 5: death I have no fear, since death is but a truth,
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  Speaker 5: and truth is but a sphere of an immortal youth.
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  Speaker 5: My fear alone shall be that I so mix with
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  Speaker 5: dross my soul when it goes free. Be not the
• 58:27
  Speaker 5: sign of loss, the leafy crown of fame, the unsought
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  Speaker 5: and the sought, the kingship and the game of empire.
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  Speaker 5: These are not to one sweet song I hear by
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  Speaker 5: one sweet maiden sung my flute girl's voice, so clear
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  Speaker 5: my garden blooms among when from this earth the tree
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  Speaker 5: that now is eye is torn. Let them from mold
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  Speaker 5: of me make cups, nor grow forlorn, but fill each
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  Speaker 5: one with wine, and drain and fill again, so may
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  Speaker 5: this dust of mine give pleasure unto men. Our sin
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  Speaker 5: concerns not thee Thou fashioned it forsooth that men might
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  Speaker 5: clearly see how good, how bright is truth? If from
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  Speaker 5: the higher path, and from the light we stray. The
• 59:30
  Speaker 5: whirlwind and the wrath are but the price we pay.
• 59:36
  Speaker 5: Let us forget to day, nor of tomorrow. Think this
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  Speaker 5: hour the while we may let us of pleasure drink
• 59:46
  Speaker 5: tomorrow we shall sleep. The dumb and dusty peers of
• 59:51
  Speaker 5: all the dead, who keep the world's upswallowed years. What
• 59:58
  Speaker 5: glory earth is gained by our sojourning? Here the greatest
• 1:00:03
  Speaker 5: that have reigned in darkness disappear? Say what am I
• 1:00:08
  Speaker 5: to thee mine ears have never heard? Is immortality a
• 1:00:14
  Speaker 5: fact or just a word? Eternal wisdom? Thou who numbereth
• 1:00:21
  Speaker 5: every hair and settest on man's brow, thy signet, proud
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 5: and fair? How may we think to move through life
• 1:00:30
  Speaker 5: deceiving thee returning for thy love or rank hypocrisy? Good
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 5: Ramazon is gone, the saint of.
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  Speaker 1: All the year.
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  Speaker 5: Behold the rosy dawn of merriment is here on Wisdom's cheek, divine.
• 1:00:49
  Speaker 5: The flagon breeds a mole. Yet there are wings in
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 5: wine for every weary soul. The wisdom in wine, the
• 1:01:01
  Speaker 5: knowledge and the might like jewels in a mine. Not
• 1:01:05
  Speaker 5: in the rough are bright, but when digged up and
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 5: wrought and held in some strong ray. They sparkle thought
• 1:01:15
  Speaker 5: on thought, and dazzle day with day. There is mirth
• 1:01:21
  Speaker 5: in the grape, and happiness astir when its juice is
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 5: escape for the gay vintager, too, sorrow fling the gage,
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 5: when eyes like a flower lend their charm to the page.
• 1:01:36
  Speaker 5: Why look for the shower? What then is merit? Pray
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 5: if at the final hour the knave turns white as
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 5: day through some absolving power. If justice is not here,
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 5: I see no reason plain why in some other sphere
• 1:01:56
  Speaker 5: in justice may not rain. While you may lift your
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 5: voice in the nightingale's choir with the wine of your choice,
• 1:02:06
  Speaker 5: fill the cup of desire. There's a song in the
• 1:02:10
  Speaker 5: tide of the grape as it flows, and a kiss
• 1:02:13
  Speaker 5: for the bride that is sweet as the rose I covet.
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 4: Not.
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 5: Therefore am I released from debt from him who sighs
• 1:02:24
  Speaker 5: for more, from envy and regret of one alone. Let
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 5: me be jealous as a king, so may my soul
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 5: be free to give him everything. I pray thee weal
• 1:02:39
  Speaker 5: of Heaven release me from thy spite, since not to
• 1:02:43
  Speaker 5: me is given to wander in thy light. Thy favors
• 1:02:48
  Speaker 5: fall on fools the while the wise want food, Thou
• 1:02:53
  Speaker 5: teachest in thy schools. The dunces are the good. If
• 1:02:59
  Speaker 5: wine in paradise the faithful soul may drink, Why is it,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 5: in his eyes so gross of it to think an
• 1:03:08
  Speaker 5: Arab deep in wine his faithful camel slew. Therefore the
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 5: sere divine the right to whine withdrew of past delights,
• 1:03:21
  Speaker 5: no more than memory remains. Yet what a dreamful store
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 5: of ever blooming grains. The happy mind may still its
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 5: joy in others, So as last year's grape doth fill
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 5: our cup with ruby glow. In this mad world of dreams,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 5: make haste to gather bloom, and like the laughing streams,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 5: forestall the day of doom. Oh, not through sorrow, dear,
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 5: the realm of truth is found. But where the gay
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 5: appear is her immortal ground. My love, its topmost flame,
• 1:04:03
  Speaker 5: has reached, and can no more as souls that love
• 1:04:07
  Speaker 5: his name to his high heaven sore. Thy beauty gladdens me.
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 5: Thy virtues are so bright I can but worship thee
• 1:04:19
  Speaker 5: as roses do the light. Let happiness increase in this
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 5: old world of woe, until the song of peace its
• 1:04:29
  Speaker 5: every heart shall know confusion, fire, and death to all
• 1:04:36
  Speaker 5: who joy forbid, Since in his healing breath the spring
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 5: of truth is hid, Thou miser mark me well. No
• 1:04:48
  Speaker 5: good art thou on earth, immured in narrow cell and
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 5: high arched fiend of mirth, yea worse than this. Thou
• 1:04:58
  Speaker 5: art a vampire to the race that sukest from the heart.
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 5: What thou canst not replace when we are gone with death?
• 1:05:09
  Speaker 5: How long the world will move, and never any breath
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 5: to whisper of our love. The ages ere we came
• 1:05:18
  Speaker 5: were not devoid of light, nor those to come our
• 1:05:22
  Speaker 5: fame shall need to make them bright. How long wilt
• 1:05:28
  Speaker 5: thou seek out the vanities of earth? How long vex
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 5: thee about things evil or of worth? Wert thou the
• 1:05:37
  Speaker 5: fount of youth or one of heaven springs? Thou couldst
• 1:05:42
  Speaker 5: not sweeten truth nor spoil her spotless wings. Within life's
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 5: book our name, the hand of nature sets, which, having
• 1:05:54
  Speaker 5: done the same hand blots and soon forgets. Thou bear
• 1:06:00
  Speaker 5: error of the cup. Bring ruby wine to me, since
• 1:06:04
  Speaker 5: earth must swallow up. Let my earth happy be. Each
• 1:06:12
  Speaker 5: day is poison tinked, since day by day we die.
• 1:06:17
  Speaker 5: Therefore let me be linked with mirth as time goes by.
• 1:06:23
  Speaker 5: Within my cup a draft that's antidote to woe, which,
• 1:06:28
  Speaker 5: when I have quaffed, shall cheer the path I go.
• 1:06:34
  Speaker 5: Behold the sex that think the world with them must
• 1:06:38
  Speaker 5: kneel or into darkness, sink and Allah's anger feel vex
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 5: not thy mind, o friend. The path of right is thine,
• 1:06:49
  Speaker 5: which well pursued doth end not far from the divine.
• 1:06:56
  Speaker 5: Grief is a constant guest. But we must summer and
• 1:07:01
  Speaker 5: make within the breast a bright nook for the boy,
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 5: else he depart full soon. He loveth not the shades,
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 5: but revels in the noon and wearies when it fades.
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 5: Arise and let the sun into thy clouded heart before
• 1:07:21
  Speaker 5: the day is done, and night takes up her part.
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 5: O dream no more awake and cast thy fear aside,
• 1:07:31
  Speaker 5: and this glad morning take to be thy rosy bride.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 5: A bitter war I wage with giant sin forsooth. Yet I,
• 1:07:43
  Speaker 5: unto his rage, am but a pigmy truth. I weaken
• 1:07:48
  Speaker 5: in the fight. My heart grows sick in me to
• 1:07:51
  Speaker 5: think that in thy sight I am so churl to thee,
• 1:07:58
  Speaker 5: they who for foolish game have set the truth aside,
• 1:08:02
  Speaker 5: and worship with the vain, and nurse their souls on pride,
• 1:08:07
  Speaker 5: make up the knots of time that hedge with hollow,
• 1:08:11
  Speaker 5: shame the Sun of the Sublime, and flaunt its golden fame.
• 1:08:19
  Speaker 5: When the steeds of the stars were first bridled on high,
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 5: and the planets their cars hurried first through the sky
• 1:08:27
  Speaker 5: from the throne of the All, when the thought of
• 1:08:31
  Speaker 5: our path, if a soul rise or fall in his plan,
• 1:08:36
  Speaker 5: thus he hath, oh, that I might withdraw from this
• 1:08:42
  Speaker 5: vain world and rest or reading write the law. Give
• 1:08:47
  Speaker 5: peace unto my breast, nor this, nor that it seems,
• 1:08:52
  Speaker 5: is given us to do. But strife and hope and
• 1:08:57
  Speaker 5: dreams with glimpses of the true woes me. For that
• 1:09:03
  Speaker 5: which slips away of golden worth woes me. The sweetest
• 1:09:08
  Speaker 5: lips must kiss the sodden earth woes me. That they
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 5: come not who once have gone away to tell of
• 1:09:16
  Speaker 5: loves for God, or hath a brighter day, since once
• 1:09:23
  Speaker 5: this earth was drowned, oh ages long ago. Come, Send
• 1:09:29
  Speaker 5: the flagon round and let the nectar flow tis ours
• 1:09:34
  Speaker 5: to silence grief in this rose colored tide, And find
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 5: the olive leaf that this dark sea doth hide alas
• 1:09:46
  Speaker 5: our youth decays. The spring of youth goes by the
• 1:09:51
  Speaker 5: bird of April days FLEs not our winter sky, nor
• 1:09:57
  Speaker 5: comes again to sing on our foresake and shore. While
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 5: Earth renews her spring from an eternal store. Make level
• 1:10:08
  Speaker 5: with thee Earth the tomb wherein I lie, that no
• 1:10:12
  Speaker 5: rude shock to mirth may come when she goes by.
• 1:10:16
  Speaker 5: So let me sleep forgot, except some song I sing
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 5: like a Forget me not in her remembrance. Spring the
• 1:10:29
  Speaker 5: captain Ruby, bring and thrown it in the light. And
• 1:10:33
  Speaker 5: our beloved King, the Prince of Men, invite. And since
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 5: all dwellers here so soon inhabit dust, bring hither wine
• 1:10:43
  Speaker 5: as clear as he is good and just o Thou
• 1:10:50
  Speaker 5: whom all desire, yet whom no heart may find, still
• 1:10:55
  Speaker 5: keep alive the fire of incense in the mind that
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 5: we are deaf to thee, that we are blind, we feel,
• 1:11:05
  Speaker 5: Yet wheeresoe'er we be, protect us, Lord and heal Why
• 1:11:13
  Speaker 5: frown upon thy fate. Oh, Rather, with a smile, go
• 1:11:17
  Speaker 5: meet her at the gate and laugh with her the
• 1:11:21
  Speaker 5: while let every moment be a little dream of bliss, which,
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 5: as it flies from THEE takes, hence a loving kiss,
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 5: O cypress, slender made and tinted like a flower. Ere
• 1:11:38
  Speaker 5: all thy beauty fade, enjoy thy little hour, pluck the
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 5: bright blossoms. Now ere they begin to fall, or round
• 1:11:48
  Speaker 5: about thy brow, the wild winds whirl them all. O,
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  Speaker 5: proud and tyrant, weeel that rollest through the sky, answering
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  Speaker 5: our zeal and making men to die. Thou heedest not
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  Speaker 5: our pain, but where its seat is bound with double
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  Speaker 5: weight a main, thou pressest on the wound. This great
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  Speaker 5: dome of the sky, and under which we move like
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  Speaker 5: shadows till we die and lose the dreams we love,
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  Speaker 5: is but a lantern small wherein the sun is light
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  Speaker 5: hung in some nook of all shall also have its
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  Speaker 5: night shadows and phanfasms make up this world so strange,
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  Speaker 5: and all its peaks and chasms are but its fields
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  Speaker 5: of change. Lose not thyself in fear. Thou canst not
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  Speaker 5: miss the light, nor time, nor tide up rear a
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  Speaker 5: hand against thy right. Daughters of the vine, bring hither
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  Speaker 5: of your store the rosy colored wine that cheers me
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  Speaker 5: more and more. Too short the time O needs we
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  Speaker 5: dwell with thee and mirth. But long among the shades
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  Speaker 5: are we with Mother Earth. For every cup of pleasure,
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  Speaker 5: there is a cup of rue, for every happy measure
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  Speaker 5: a rhyme of sorrow too. Still let us live and drink. Still,
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  Speaker 5: let us live and sing. We know not on the
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  Speaker 5: brink what our last day may bring. Oh that the
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  Speaker 5: sons of greed were not the lords of gold, that
• 1:13:47
  Speaker 5: worth were prince indeed and master of the fold, how
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 5: many hearts that bleed might laugh and leap in glee.
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  Speaker 5: No longer slaves to need, but free among the free,
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  Speaker 5: O Bard, that finest fate hast closed her tents to thee,
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  Speaker 5: and therefore ceased to bate this side eternity, a brother
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  Speaker 5: to the stone and ominer to pain. Remember not alone
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  Speaker 5: thou knockst and in vain the day wherein that I am,
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  Speaker 5: to myself unknown, no more a passer by a myth
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  Speaker 5: unto mine own, mixed with thee. All again, hope that
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  Speaker 5: I may renew myself and be to men more helpful
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  Speaker 5: and more true thy hand, O lord didst, So I
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 5: am what thou didst. Will what tears, what wheat shall grow?
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  Speaker 5: The reaper reapeth. Still, how can I change thy way,
• 1:14:59
  Speaker 5: how can I set at nought? What since the primal
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  Speaker 5: day wast written in thy thought? These high and mighty
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  Speaker 5: lords beset by care and grief, the same as all
• 1:15:15
  Speaker 5: the hordes of this small life and brief, still frown
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  Speaker 5: and view with scorn their brothers of the dust, who
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  Speaker 5: happened to be borne two lesser rounds of lust. Behold,
• 1:15:31
  Speaker 5: the bard is fled, and the sad season sighs, and
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 5: the last rose is dead. Where the old poet lies
• 1:15:41
  Speaker 5: o the pearls, they were few, the cold world cared
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  Speaker 5: to thrid, and the throng never knew what his rich
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  Speaker 5: bosom hid with some fast friend, to sit, or wander
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 5: through the grove, to sound the see of wit, to
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  Speaker 5: taste the sweets of love. Say, what hath life more good?
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  Speaker 5: Or this old sphere more fair? They fire the very
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  Speaker 5: blood and dull the sting of care and of section three,
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  Speaker 5: verses one sixty one to two forty. Recording by Ronda Fetterman.
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  Speaker 2: Section four of Omar resung. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 2: All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more
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  Speaker 2: by Bob Gonzales Omar Resung by Charles G. Blanden, being
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  Speaker 2: a verse rendering of the prose translation of the Rubaiyat
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  Speaker 2: of Omar Kaiam by Justin Huntly McCarthy, section four versus
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  Speaker 2: two forty one to three twenty O. Love is like
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  Speaker 2: a fire that's kindled in the breast, which Heaven doth
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  Speaker 2: inspire to be of worth the test, and where the
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  Speaker 2: altar burns with bright and willing ray to it, the
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  Speaker 2: God returns with incense day by day. One glance of
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  Speaker 2: love is more than many looks that frown. The ruby
• 1:17:25
  Speaker 2: wine we pour is better than a crown. What is
• 1:17:29
  Speaker 2: more fair than truth? Go seek her fount and live.
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  Speaker 2: She is immortal youth, and hath a world to give.
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  Speaker 2: When I the race behold in ignorance asleep, and think
• 1:17:44
  Speaker 2: on those untold that lie so dusty deep, I sigh
• 1:17:50
  Speaker 2: yet mourn me more to think of men to come
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  Speaker 2: born to this sodden store, and in a time so dumb,
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  Speaker 2: thy mercy hath no end. Therefore I do not fear.
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  Speaker 2: Thy goodness is a friend that journeys.
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  Speaker 3: With me here.
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  Speaker 2: The terrors of the book are not thy Terror's lord.
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  Speaker 2: To thee I will but look and thy unwritten word.
• 1:18:17
  Speaker 2: I saw in the bazaar a potter knead his clay,
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  Speaker 2: And as the morning star hints silently of day, I
• 1:18:25
  Speaker 2: heard a small voice chime, be merciful to me that
• 1:18:30
  Speaker 2: once upon a timest, not unlike to thee alone, is
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  Speaker 2: all thou hast of this world's pomp and gear. And
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: it falls dew at last and leaves thee ashes. Here.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: Set not thy heart on things the soul doth scorn,
• 1:18:48
  Speaker 2: as dross the mind that only clings to truth can
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: laugh at loss. To day, the sky is fair, the
• 1:18:58
  Speaker 2: dew has laved the rose, and through the gentle air
• 1:19:02
  Speaker 2: a laughing odor goes now sings the nightingale deep hidden
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  Speaker 2: in the grove, her ever wondrous tale of melody and love.
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: May this love for the fair but increase with the years.
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  Speaker 2: In the land of despair, in the valley of tears,
• 1:19:21
  Speaker 2: May it gleam as a light or a beacon at sea,
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  Speaker 2: leading on through the night to the temple of thee.
• 1:19:29
  Speaker 2: The great wheel turns and lo the potter shapes his clay,
• 1:19:34
  Speaker 2: and as new vessels grow, the old are cast away.
• 1:19:39
  Speaker 2: Could youth and beauty feel what dreams they soon shall
• 1:19:43
  Speaker 2: prove how they would curse the wheel and doubt the
• 1:19:48
  Speaker 2: lips of love, when far my soul shall pass from
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  Speaker 2: this old, ruined gray, And as dead leaves of grass,
• 1:19:58
  Speaker 2: this house is whirl away with what supreme content shall I,
• 1:20:04
  Speaker 2: the builder see, recast this earthly tent that shall not
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: shelter me again? The cheek of dawn is blushing in
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  Speaker 2: the east, O youth, ere she is gone. Spread thou
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: the rosy feast. Wait not nor dream of her, but
• 1:20:23
  Speaker 2: flee into her arms. Be her first worshiper, and last
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  Speaker 2: to view her charms?
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  Speaker 3: What boots it?
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  Speaker 2: Where we climb again to earth? We fall, and, knowing
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: the sublime, seem farther from thee, all proud intellect with scorn.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 2: The heavens note thy flight, and match thy every morn
• 1:20:48
  Speaker 2: with equal show of night. In right good company. Good
• 1:20:54
  Speaker 2: wine alone should flow, and there should laughter be, and
• 1:20:58
  Speaker 2: wit his wonders show. O. Wine was never aged for
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  Speaker 2: other souls than those whom wisdom hath engaged, and high
• 1:21:08
  Speaker 2: born honor knows. The joys of life are thine, forswear
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  Speaker 2: them not. I pray with laughter, love and wine be
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  Speaker 2: friends the while you may too soon the frosts of time,
• 1:21:23
  Speaker 2: the fields of youth destroy, and every lyric rhyme ends
• 1:21:28
  Speaker 2: with a dirge to joy. The wind drinks up the
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  Speaker 2: leaves of all the roses, fair the morn, the dew
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  Speaker 2: deceives and drinks the grasses bare. The greedy groves do
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 2: drain the nightingale of song. And while we here remain,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 2: let us drink deep and long o not to morrow,
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  Speaker 2: sweet of kisses, let us dream, who knows our sandaled
• 1:21:58
  Speaker 2: feet may cross tomorrow's stream. Propitious is the hour for
• 1:22:03
  Speaker 2: love and laughter. Now time breeds upon the flower, and
• 1:22:08
  Speaker 2: vacant is the bough. If in a future state a
• 1:22:13
  Speaker 2: perfect bliss be ours, Why mourn er hesitate to pluck
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  Speaker 2: life's morning flowers? Choose thou the sunny path and shun
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  Speaker 2: the gloomy waste what heaven only hast. We should not
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  Speaker 2: fear to taste when friends refuse to pour the merry
• 1:22:34
  Speaker 2: wine for me and April skies no more the budding
• 1:22:38
  Speaker 2: blossoms see, then will I cast aside the muse and
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: her delights and take another bride to sigh for rainy
• 1:22:48
  Speaker 2: nights The hills themselves would leap with ecstasy. Divine shouldst
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  Speaker 2: thou each rocky steep, but drench with rosy wine. The
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  Speaker 2: trees would laugh with glee and clap their hands for ours,
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  Speaker 2: could they like THEE and me command these ruby showers
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  Speaker 2: in the kingdom of the soul, O whisper not of earth,
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  Speaker 2: nor round its borders, roll the careless noise of mirth.
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  Speaker 2: It is a realm forsooth, where contemplation dwells, and all
• 1:23:27
  Speaker 2: its laws are Truth. Whose voice is Israphel's. Make fellowship
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  Speaker 2: with truth, And to her temples go, and thou, the
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  Speaker 2: golden youth of all the gods, shalt know. Move therefore
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  Speaker 2: to thy end with stateliness and grace, And thy eternal
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  Speaker 2: friend shall greet THEE face to face, nor slave, nor
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  Speaker 2: tyrant be, and humble be thy nest. So shall Tranquis
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  Speaker 2: count the among her blest. A crust with calm content,
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  Speaker 2: a draft from nature's spring, and kingdoms may be rent,
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  Speaker 2: nor thou lose anything. Sometimes the stream is clear, sometimes
• 1:24:18
  Speaker 2: a torrent dark. Yet from the margin here all fearless
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  Speaker 2: I embark, I know the fountain head is bright as
• 1:24:27
  Speaker 2: bright ast day, and soon shall overspread and wash the
• 1:24:31
  Speaker 2: dark away. The wisdom of good cheer. Let every mortal learn,
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  Speaker 2: and in his bosom clear the light of courage, burn
• 1:24:42
  Speaker 2: a store of happiness against some famine fierce when no
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: bright blossoms bless and thorns the sandals pierce. If you
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  Speaker 2: be friends of mine, your vain discourses cease and fill
• 1:24:59
  Speaker 2: my cup with wine, the dreamy wine of peace. I
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 2: would not that my dust be moisten'd by your grief,
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: since nourish soon it must the bridal bud and leaf.
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  Speaker 2: We go no step beyond the bounds of what we are,
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  Speaker 2: nor in our dreaming fond reach one eternal star outside ourselves.
• 1:25:24
  Speaker 2: Forsooth our hell in conscience lies, and for the throne
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  Speaker 2: of truth. We fix our paradise. Give me of joy
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: to day, and let to morrow bring o whatsoever may
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  Speaker 2: be hid beneath her wing. They talk of paradise and
• 1:25:44
  Speaker 2: of the glories there to day to day Mine eyes
• 1:25:49
  Speaker 2: would feast upon the fair. At times my heart doth
• 1:25:55
  Speaker 2: seem shut in a prison cell, where it can only
• 1:25:58
  Speaker 2: dream of what it so well. Oh, liberty and light,
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  Speaker 2: alas ye are denied until the hand of might puts
• 1:26:08
  Speaker 2: these cold chains aside. The moon of Ramazan o sweet
• 1:26:17
  Speaker 2: will soon appear, and in its splendor wan frown coldly
• 1:26:22
  Speaker 2: on good cheer. Another kiss I pray, so holy and
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: so pure it can but shame the ray that would
• 1:26:31
  Speaker 2: such passion cure the potter, that, with thought and skill
• 1:26:38
  Speaker 2: and judgment fine his helpless clay hath wrought to beautiful design.
• 1:26:44
  Speaker 2: Will he, in anger soar condemn what he hath made
• 1:26:48
  Speaker 2: and prove himself no more than prentice to his trade. Oh,
• 1:26:55
  Speaker 2: the wine in the glass is like unto a flame,
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: for the blush of Alas that hears her lover's name.
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  Speaker 2: Drink then, and happy be and warm thy heart the
• 1:27:07
  Speaker 2: while lest sorrow sadden thee, till thou no more can smile.
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  Speaker 2: O naught of glory? Lord, is this poor life to thee?
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  Speaker 2: And can I shame thy word? However mean I be?
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  Speaker 2: Forgive me then, that I so follow this old earth.
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  Speaker 2: We cannot well defy the one who gave us birth.
• 1:27:33
  Speaker 2: We wallow deep in greed, we walk with pomp and pride,
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: and on the feasts we feed of every sin. Beside
• 1:27:43
  Speaker 2: O thy forgiveness, Lord, full pardon in thy sight, since Thou,
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 2: with sweet accord canst make our black as white? Alas
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 2: the heart can find no comfort in this round, nor
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: can the prying mind, the deeps of being sound. My
• 1:28:05
  Speaker 2: soul is sick to go, And yet I know not where,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: but from this sphere of woe, to some diviner air.
• 1:28:16
  Speaker 2: When the day in the east, with opal splendor blooms, Behold,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: how it doth feast on dews born of the glooms.
• 1:28:26
  Speaker 2: So these dark lives of ours, some brightness may distill,
• 1:28:32
  Speaker 2: which truth for her own flowers may claim and cherish. Still,
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 2: how long wilt thou be vain and count thee more
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 2: than chaff? Dost thou not know? To gain the world
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 2: is but to laugh part of thee all thou art,
• 1:28:51
  Speaker 2: and wert thou king of kings, Thou couldst but play
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 2: a part that soon were won with things beloved. Bid
• 1:29:03
  Speaker 2: them bring fresh roses for our brows, and bid the
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: singers sing while we revow our vows. The future will
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  Speaker 2: not heed the tombs where we shall lie, nor our
• 1:29:17
  Speaker 2: inscriptions read to find its treasures. By O, the heart
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 2: that is learned in the love of the vine not
• 1:29:27
  Speaker 2: easily is turned on the Koran to dine. Let the
• 1:29:32
  Speaker 2: fond devotee himself fasting employ But O bring not to
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 2: me just the promise of joy. If thou wouldst happy,
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 2: be seek not the ways of wealth, be thankful to
• 1:29:49
  Speaker 2: be free, and for the boon of health. Set not
• 1:29:54
  Speaker 2: thy heart on things that laden thee with care to
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 2: nature's crystal springs, fly oft and worship. There two paths
• 1:30:06
  Speaker 2: before us lead. One is a darksome way, one through
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: a pleasant mead with many blossoms. Gay. Fear not to choose,
• 1:30:16
  Speaker 2: nor vex thee at the happy choice, since in this
• 1:30:20
  Speaker 2: great vortex thou hast not final voice. Tis said that
• 1:30:27
  Speaker 2: at the last, our gentle friend will rave, and his
• 1:30:31
  Speaker 2: poor children cast in some unfathomed cave from goodness good
• 1:30:37
  Speaker 2: alone in endless dream doth pour fear not that the
• 1:30:42
  Speaker 2: unknown is less than truth or more. Before thy name
• 1:30:49
  Speaker 2: is tossed into the night of time, be no glad
• 1:30:53
  Speaker 2: moment lost to sing a merry rhyme. Unbind the tresses
• 1:30:59
  Speaker 2: fair of her. The gods have sent and wreathe thy
• 1:31:02
  Speaker 2: roses there with love, and be content. Dash down the
• 1:31:08
  Speaker 2: glass of fame and fill the cup again. There's nothing
• 1:31:13
  Speaker 2: in a name nor in the praise of men. Behold
• 1:31:17
  Speaker 2: the whine of day incarnadine. The east now fades the
• 1:31:22
  Speaker 2: night away, and glory spreads her feast, O search that
• 1:31:28
  Speaker 2: ends in naught, O path that leads to night. How
• 1:31:33
  Speaker 2: fruitless is our thought, how limited our sight? Stars, stars
• 1:31:39
  Speaker 2: and ever stars, with not one glimpse of thee but
• 1:31:43
  Speaker 2: age and grief and scars, and longing to be free
• 1:31:51
  Speaker 2: before the knave or clown. Oh mention not her name,
• 1:31:56
  Speaker 2: lest some rude thought should drown the perfume of her fame.
• 1:32:01
  Speaker 2: But only where the bright their lofty converse hold. Speak
• 1:32:06
  Speaker 2: thou of her. Since light Love's light, and gold Love's gold,
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 2: O wheel of highest heaven. Thou fillest us with grief.
• 1:32:19
  Speaker 2: The joy to us is given. Thou makest all to brief.
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 2: Thou changest in an hour, the smile into a tear,
• 1:32:28
  Speaker 2: and sendest every flower too soon unto its beer. When
• 1:32:34
  Speaker 2: in the Book of Love thy name is written, dear
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 2: of all the powers above, Thou needest have no fear.
• 1:32:43
  Speaker 2: Eternity cannot erase the legend fare, nor wilt thou be
• 1:32:48
  Speaker 2: forgot by any worthy there who loves the cheek of
• 1:32:55
  Speaker 2: morn rich tinted with the rose. Ah. He has felt
• 1:33:00
  Speaker 2: the thorn that in his garden grows, alas the dreams
• 1:33:06
  Speaker 2: of bliss that with our waking go alas the thorns
• 1:33:11
  Speaker 2: they miss, who see no roses, blow.
• 1:33:16
  Speaker 3: In love.
• 1:33:17
  Speaker 2: Forget thy care, and end misfortune's reign. Go drink the
• 1:33:23
  Speaker 2: finer air of mountain and of plain, whose alchemy is
• 1:33:27
  Speaker 2: such that life shall prove a boon. Go put it
• 1:33:32
  Speaker 2: to the touch and court the lady moon. Give me
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: to eat, that I may feed this soul of mine
• 1:33:42
  Speaker 2: until it leaves to fly in ether more divine, I
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: covet paradise. Let me not fall, I ask, But ever
• 1:33:51
  Speaker 2: as I rise, grow stronger with the task. When in
• 1:33:57
  Speaker 2: the spring the flowers a glooming everywhere, Light tarries in
• 1:34:03
  Speaker 2: his bowers, and gentle grows the air. O who can
• 1:34:08
  Speaker 2: blame mankind? If with a lightsome heart and with a
• 1:34:13
  Speaker 2: merry mind it plays the lover's part. O dwellers in
• 1:34:20
  Speaker 2: the tombs, What more than dust are we, that soon,
• 1:34:24
  Speaker 2: unto your glooms, shall enter and be free.
• 1:34:28
  Speaker 3: Give me to.
• 1:34:29
  Speaker 2: Drink the wine of that which yet shall prove a
• 1:34:33
  Speaker 2: ministrant divine to some sweet soul, I love, beloved one,
• 1:34:40
  Speaker 2: and sweet. It ever seems to me that when we
• 1:34:45
  Speaker 2: chance to meet, my soul is lost to thee. Enough
• 1:34:51
  Speaker 2: of paradise, if ever I might sit and gaze into
• 1:34:55
  Speaker 2: thine eyes and drink thy ready wit, to search the
• 1:35:03
  Speaker 2: livelong night for truth among the stars, to send from
• 1:35:08
  Speaker 2: light to light high thought in flaming cars. Such is
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 2: a pleasure keen that is not all of earth, while
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 2: mighty lords careen in their proud fields of worth. O
• 1:35:24
  Speaker 2: not within thy heart the plant of woe sustain, but
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 2: bid the seedling start of joy and mark the gain,
• 1:35:34
  Speaker 2: and like a garden fair the blossoming shall be with
• 1:35:38
  Speaker 2: every fragrance there to cheer and comfort thee. Thou settest
• 1:35:45
  Speaker 2: many snares wherein our feet may fall, and sayest whoso
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: fares this way shall lose his all. Since thou dost
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: know how weak thy children are, O Lord, what credit
• 1:36:00
  Speaker 2: shouldst thou seek from those who are restored? The way
• 1:36:06
  Speaker 2: thou goest, friend, the yet unborn, shall go on unto
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: the end of this delusive show, and soon the potter's
• 1:36:16
  Speaker 2: hand will shape thy shapeless clay. As fancy may demand,
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: weep thou or smile to day? Happy is he, O friend,
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: that never mounts to fame, nor sees his fellow's bend
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: at mention of his name, Since better tis to reign
• 1:36:37
  Speaker 2: possessor of the crown of quiet peace, than gain the
• 1:36:42
  Speaker 2: kingdom of renown. Yea like unto a face, O lovely rose,
• 1:36:48
  Speaker 2: Thou art in which celestial grace is mirrored from the heart,
• 1:36:54
  Speaker 2: a dear, familiar friend. Thou seemest unto me, in whom
• 1:36:58
  Speaker 2: there is no end of love and charity. Drunk with
• 1:37:04
  Speaker 2: the dross of earth, how sodden we become to things
• 1:37:09
  Speaker 2: of active worth, and blind and deaf and dumb, bubbles
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  Speaker 2: and butterflies. Man chases to his doom, drowns woe in woe,
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  Speaker 2: and dies a tomb within a tomb. Not to the
• 1:37:28
  Speaker 2: small of heart, nor to the cheap of wit, is
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  Speaker 2: given the honored part with thee elect to sit, who
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  Speaker 2: knoweth not the rose, unto its soul is lost, a
• 1:37:42
  Speaker 2: worm that in it grows, yet is a worm. At
• 1:37:46
  Speaker 2: most Thou only Lord, canst ope the gate revealing thee.
• 1:37:54
  Speaker 2: Thou only art the hope, the fount that saveth me
• 1:37:59
  Speaker 2: my hand in thine alone with confidence, I place, though dark,
• 1:38:04
  Speaker 2: the great unknown and hidden be thy face, lo drunken
• 1:38:10
  Speaker 2: with a dream. I wasted half my life in drifting
• 1:38:14
  Speaker 2: down the stream that new, nor toil nor strife alas
• 1:38:20
  Speaker 2: the dreadful cost I fear me in this hour to
• 1:38:24
  Speaker 2: age is wholly lost, the fruitage of the flower knee deep.
• 1:38:30
  Speaker 2: We wade in sin, and thy commandments break, and in
• 1:38:35
  Speaker 2: this worldly din forget thee and forsake. Yet, when beset
• 1:38:41
  Speaker 2: by shame and victims of our pride, we curse thy
• 1:38:46
  Speaker 2: holy name and pierce thy tender side. Engrossed with this
• 1:38:54
  Speaker 2: vain world and blind to higher things, if to destruct hurl'd,
• 1:39:01
  Speaker 2: I would not ask for wings. Thus for a stoop
• 1:39:06
  Speaker 2: of wine, I pawned myself as wage. The tapster said
• 1:39:10
  Speaker 2: in fine lo, what a perfect gage. While nightingales have
• 1:39:18
  Speaker 2: sown with song the shadows deep, How many knights have flown,
• 1:39:23
  Speaker 2: nor touch'd our lids with sleep? Before the breath of
• 1:39:28
  Speaker 2: day shall waken hearts to pain go not for once away,
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  Speaker 2: how many knights shall wane. Two things are wisdom's base
• 1:39:40
  Speaker 2: and time's eternal glory, the safe guard of the race
• 1:39:44
  Speaker 2: and triumph's laurel story. Believe not all that's writ of man,
• 1:39:50
  Speaker 2: or God or devil, and never flank your wit with
• 1:39:54
  Speaker 2: forces kin to evil, O, haughty devil, te art thou
• 1:40:00
  Speaker 2: the rod of scorn that thou shouldst leer at me,
• 1:40:05
  Speaker 2: and be my roses thorn away, And with THEE take
• 1:40:11
  Speaker 2: cant and hypocrisy. I care not to forsake the friends
• 1:40:15
  Speaker 2: I love. For thee spring unfoldeth her sweet buds, and
• 1:40:23
  Speaker 2: autumn hurls away, until the naked woods as are spent,
• 1:40:28
  Speaker 2: lives are gray, O memory of times when we were
• 1:40:32
  Speaker 2: only young? How sad our April's rhymes by old December
• 1:40:38
  Speaker 2: sung O Thou, whose heart should be remorses inmost shrine,
• 1:40:46
  Speaker 2: Why dost thou rail at me or pray for me
• 1:40:49
  Speaker 2: or mine? If God should answer THEE methinks that Satan might,
• 1:40:55
  Speaker 2: upon his bended knee, set all the world aright, art
• 1:41:02
  Speaker 2: full of heaviness. Go eat the food of dreams, or
• 1:41:06
  Speaker 2: to thy hot lips, press the grape's delicious streams. Refusing
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  Speaker 2: that or this, go nibble of thy crust and the
• 1:41:16
  Speaker 2: dry altar kiss that's only fed with dust. Reason, no
• 1:41:23
  Speaker 2: longer I will be thy foolish slave. But will the
• 1:41:28
  Speaker 2: pleasure try that life at starting gave. If fifty years
• 1:41:33
  Speaker 2: I stay or one, it matters not. The potter gets
• 1:41:37
  Speaker 2: his clay, and we are soon forgot A wise man.
• 1:41:44
  Speaker 2: Once I met and with the drunkard's face, and as
• 1:41:48
  Speaker 2: the wine he set, I said, with solemn grace the absent,
• 1:41:53
  Speaker 2: Where are they said, he drink unconcerned? Many have gone
• 1:41:59
  Speaker 2: away that never have returned. Who brought me here? Or
• 1:42:06
  Speaker 2: woe or weal? I cannot say. The joys of life
• 1:42:10
  Speaker 2: I know exalt my soul to day. The voice of
• 1:42:14
  Speaker 2: love is dear, the sounding lute is sweet. The blooming
• 1:42:19
  Speaker 2: garden here an unwatched eden seat the world's great rose.
• 1:42:26
  Speaker 2: The dawn has blossomed in the east, and ere the
• 1:42:30
  Speaker 2: blush be gone. Spread thou the rosy feast lo Jamshid
• 1:42:36
  Speaker 2: and his peers. And yet a thousand kings sleep in
• 1:42:41
  Speaker 2: the tomb of years o'er which this glory springs. I
• 1:42:46
  Speaker 2: drink my mellow wine. And there are some who say
• 1:42:51
  Speaker 2: tis foe of the divine, and bid me turn away.
• 1:42:56
  Speaker 2: Now therefore am I proud as I the creed of
• 1:43:01
  Speaker 2: I drink, since tis allowed to drink the blood of foes.
• 1:43:09
  Speaker 2: If I, in will were free and free from worldly fate,
• 1:43:14
  Speaker 2: I had not come to be the plaything of this state,
• 1:43:18
  Speaker 2: or had I chosen life, and yet could have my
• 1:43:21
  Speaker 2: will despite the bitter strife, I'd hug my phantoms. Still,
• 1:43:28
  Speaker 2: How is it grapes are sour and then are sweet?
• 1:43:31
  Speaker 2: I pray? How is it that the flower has not
• 1:43:35
  Speaker 2: the fruit's bouquet? How is it that the hand can
• 1:43:40
  Speaker 2: fashion lutes? To day tomorrow thrill the land sword, thrusting
• 1:43:46
  Speaker 2: in the fray, came one foul, favored, gaunt, rag clad
• 1:43:55
  Speaker 2: and sexless, pale, and with a silent taunt made all
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  Speaker 2: our laughter fail, broke in his ghostly hand Life's flagon
• 1:44:06
  Speaker 2: in a trice, as though the deed were grand and
• 1:44:09
  Speaker 2: wine without a price. Things past and things to come coevil.
• 1:44:17
  Speaker 2: I shall be with them in my last home, heir
• 1:44:21
  Speaker 2: to antiquity and to the future air. Why then, should
• 1:44:26
  Speaker 2: this short hour provoke me with its care? Or I
• 1:44:30
  Speaker 2: seek fame or power? End of section four recording by
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  Speaker 2: Bob Gonzales.
• 1:44:48
  Speaker 6: Section five of Omar resung. This is a LibriVox recording.
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• 1:44:57
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• 1:45:04
  Speaker 6: by BEV Stephens. Omar re sung by Charles G. Blanden,
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  Speaker 6: being a verse rendering of the prose translation of the
• 1:45:13
  Speaker 6: Rubayat of Omar Kaam by justin Huntley MacCarthy, section five,
• 1:45:21
  Speaker 6: verses three hundred and twenty one through four hundred. Out
• 1:45:27
  Speaker 6: upon the hypocrite, and out upon the vein, and in
• 1:45:31
  Speaker 6: with sprightly wit, and in with laughter's train, These gaudy
• 1:45:36
  Speaker 6: robes of prayer, these turbans of the great, I'd sell
• 1:45:41
  Speaker 6: or any spare old heart, of honest weight. When at
• 1:45:45
  Speaker 6: her feet, O heart, thou tremblest in a dream lost
• 1:45:50
  Speaker 6: to thyself, Thou art thyself in her bright beam, yea
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  Speaker 6: wandering before thou wast a desert child, that at her
• 1:45:59
  Speaker 6: sh shining door art found and reconciled the path of
• 1:46:05
  Speaker 6: truth pursue. No creed can more demand to them that
• 1:46:10
  Speaker 6: ask of you close not too tight the hand, speak
• 1:46:14
  Speaker 6: ill of none, and do no wrong to any man.
• 1:46:18
  Speaker 6: Heaven has no broader view, nor God's a better plan.
• 1:46:24
  Speaker 6: Bestir thyself thy home perforce. A while is here beneath
• 1:46:29
  Speaker 6: the starry dome of this unfeeling sphere. If earth is earth,
• 1:46:34
  Speaker 6: at least with hope about it, move look ever to
• 1:46:38
  Speaker 6: the east and sound the depths of love, O heart,
• 1:46:44
  Speaker 6: Thou canst not learn the secret all would know, But
• 1:46:48
  Speaker 6: every night return unto the morning's woe. If so thou
• 1:46:53
  Speaker 6: canst create on earth thy heaven to day. If thou
• 1:46:57
  Speaker 6: shalt love or hate the future, Who can say, if
• 1:47:02
  Speaker 6: thou hast wit seem dull, that from sweet wisdom come
• 1:47:07
  Speaker 6: thy cup with knowledge full? And thou be not so dumb,
• 1:47:11
  Speaker 6: but is thy learning small? Seem deep, and haunt the wise,
• 1:47:17
  Speaker 6: that from their lips may fall the best that in
• 1:47:20
  Speaker 6: them lies. O would that we might be just honors thrall,
• 1:47:26
  Speaker 6: and thine modest simplicity, that hath a face divine. The
• 1:47:31
  Speaker 6: burdens we must bear were lighter than the wind, and
• 1:47:35
  Speaker 6: all the world were fair, and every glance were kind.
• 1:47:41
  Speaker 6: Couldst thou but understand one petal of this rose, O,
• 1:47:45
  Speaker 6: twere voluble, and thou wouldst know what Heaven knows. Cease, cease,
• 1:47:51
  Speaker 6: thy delving friend, the truth thou canst not find until
• 1:47:56
  Speaker 6: this journey end in universal mind? An Aristotle wise, a
• 1:48:03
  Speaker 6: Roman caesar great, or under Eastern skies, some grand mogul
• 1:48:09
  Speaker 6: of state. Yet would I say, to thee partake of
• 1:48:13
  Speaker 6: Jamshid's wine the grave thy end shall be, nor bahams
• 1:48:18
  Speaker 6: less than thine. Unto a sought a shake did cast
• 1:48:24
  Speaker 6: the stone of blame? Who answer'd him. Go seek the
• 1:48:29
  Speaker 6: man that is not lame, thy servant, is not whole
• 1:48:33
  Speaker 6: yet in thy heart. But gaze and tell me if
• 1:48:36
  Speaker 6: thy soul condemns thee, or doth praise youth, wine and
• 1:48:43
  Speaker 6: love have we, beloved of my soul? For what can
• 1:48:47
  Speaker 6: these gifts be? Oh, surely not for doll. The first
• 1:48:52
  Speaker 6: of these will go, the last may vanish. Soon, Bring wine,
• 1:48:57
  Speaker 6: Bring wine, that woe come not till afternoon. That hermit
• 1:49:04
  Speaker 6: of the breast, the heart that never sleeps, with what
• 1:49:08
  Speaker 6: unwearied zest at his vain task he keeps. Deny him
• 1:49:12
  Speaker 6: not I pray a draft of ruddy wine. Oh, to
• 1:49:17
  Speaker 6: be old and gray, yet know not the divine. A
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  Speaker 6: sorry path we travel in this old world of ours,
• 1:49:26
  Speaker 6: a path of cant and cavil, a path of thorns
• 1:49:30
  Speaker 6: and flowers. Oh, blame us not if we do sometimes
• 1:49:34
  Speaker 6: please the devil, mistaking what we see for good and
• 1:49:38
  Speaker 6: finding evil. See how the jar doth try to drink
• 1:49:44
  Speaker 6: this ruby tide, yet ever goeth dry when long we
• 1:49:48
  Speaker 6: sit beside, Oh tantalus of mine, I would that I
• 1:49:53
  Speaker 6: had might to let thee sip this wine and taste
• 1:49:56
  Speaker 6: of my delight, this mortal house is more decrepit than
• 1:50:01
  Speaker 6: we know, not longer than threescore. Set thou the date
• 1:50:06
  Speaker 6: to go, and while the shadow stays beyond thy threshold,
• 1:50:10
  Speaker 6: fair Bridge not with gloom thy days, nor beckon to
• 1:50:15
  Speaker 6: him there away with care, arise and sing a jolly song.
• 1:50:22
  Speaker 6: Now while the sunny skies float their white ships along.
• 1:50:27
  Speaker 6: Accept the gifts that heaven doth offer day by day,
• 1:50:31
  Speaker 6: for sparingly is given the blooms that fade away. When
• 1:50:36
  Speaker 6: I do dream, I see the fields of paradise earth
• 1:50:41
  Speaker 6: from her winter free and naught but summer skies, O
• 1:50:46
  Speaker 6: happy sleep. If thou couldst delegate thy power, the woes
• 1:50:51
  Speaker 6: that haunt me now were roses in an hour. Fear
• 1:50:56
  Speaker 6: not to follow sweet where beauty leads the way, her
• 1:51:00
  Speaker 6: fairy sandaled feet seek, but the heights of day. Her
• 1:51:05
  Speaker 6: voice is Israfel's, Her eyes are kin to stars, and
• 1:51:10
  Speaker 6: her bright passing tells the legend of no wars. Through
• 1:51:16
  Speaker 6: love of tawdry things, our reason is no more. Content
• 1:51:20
  Speaker 6: has taken wings, and honor barred his door. Ye gods,
• 1:51:26
  Speaker 6: we are but earth, fine dust before our time, And
• 1:51:31
  Speaker 6: what the soul is worth? I venture not in rhyme
• 1:51:36
  Speaker 6: o flagon friend of mine, whose cheeks are like the rose,
• 1:51:41
  Speaker 6: ambassador of wine, and soother of our woes? What better friend,
• 1:51:47
  Speaker 6: hath Man, as thou dost swiftly run to lift the
• 1:51:51
  Speaker 6: heavy ban of grief and pour the sun cup bearer,
• 1:51:57
  Speaker 6: Those that hence have gone are lapp'd in dost the wise,
• 1:52:02
  Speaker 6: the poor of sense, the unjust and the just, the unkind,
• 1:52:07
  Speaker 6: and the kind all sleep as equals. Now the words
• 1:52:12
  Speaker 6: they spake the wind that stirs this leafy bough upon us.
• 1:52:18
  Speaker 6: Thou hast set a seal we may not read. Thou
• 1:52:22
  Speaker 6: takest in thy net, Thou goadest us. Indeed, since Lord,
• 1:52:27
  Speaker 6: thou madest me a blinded worm of earth, how can
• 1:52:31
  Speaker 6: I better be than what I have of worth?
• 1:52:36
  Speaker 1: Beloved?
• 1:52:37
  Speaker 6: This is wise to lighten loads of men, and set
• 1:52:41
  Speaker 6: before their eyes the feasts of love again, to smooth
• 1:52:45
  Speaker 6: the path, to give, to share what we call ours,
• 1:52:50
  Speaker 6: to bid the fainting live not on the thorns but flowers.
• 1:52:57
  Speaker 6: Art Thou not Lord of all? And am I not
• 1:53:01
  Speaker 6: thy slave? Who sins? If I do fall, who gains?
• 1:53:06
  Speaker 6: If thou dost save the living and the dead are
• 1:53:10
  Speaker 6: subject to thy will? And what have I to dread,
• 1:53:14
  Speaker 6: thy helpless subject, still off spring of whirling chance. Think
• 1:53:21
  Speaker 6: not that thou canst learn the maze of circumstance. The
• 1:53:25
  Speaker 6: dead no more return. Therefore I say, serene and with
• 1:53:31
  Speaker 6: a fearless heart, live well in thy thy main, and
• 1:53:35
  Speaker 6: like a king depart o thou hidden to man, Yet
• 1:53:41
  Speaker 6: in thy works display'd say, who may know thy plan?
• 1:53:46
  Speaker 6: The maker? Not the maid alone, Thou art of truth,
• 1:53:51
  Speaker 6: spectator and the play we but the motes forsooth that
• 1:53:56
  Speaker 6: drift across thy day. If I famous, you're maligned, and
• 1:54:02
  Speaker 6: praise to bitter turns. Secluded dwell you'll find the act
• 1:54:07
  Speaker 6: suspicion earns. The middle course is best for prophet.
• 1:54:12
  Speaker 2: Or for saint.
• 1:54:14
  Speaker 6: Who follows it may rest, perchance without a taint to
• 1:54:20
  Speaker 6: lighten one sad heart. Is better than much fame blown
• 1:54:24
  Speaker 6: from the heights of art, and bears a sweeter name,
• 1:54:28
  Speaker 6: with charity to bind thy former foe to thee. Is
• 1:54:32
  Speaker 6: more than heroes find in kingdoms they set free. Lo
• 1:54:39
  Speaker 6: from the startled tower, the loud moisin floats awake. It
• 1:54:44
  Speaker 6: is the hour to cheer our thirsty throats, Oh babele,
• 1:54:48
  Speaker 6: not a prayer. The heavens are weary grown, But grasp
• 1:54:52
  Speaker 6: the goblet there and make its soul thine own. If
• 1:54:58
  Speaker 6: I of mirth am friend and revel at his side,
• 1:55:02
  Speaker 6: O blame me not. The end is soon, and earth
• 1:55:05
  Speaker 6: shall hide. Since there is peace in joy to lesser things. Farewell.
• 1:55:12
  Speaker 6: When happiness doth cloy, tis time with gloom to dwell
• 1:55:18
  Speaker 6: upon this strutted stage, how friendship bites the dust priests kings,
• 1:55:25
  Speaker 6: they have their wage, and virtue turns to lust. Beware,
• 1:55:31
  Speaker 6: grieve not to find thy dearest friend, thy foe the
• 1:55:35
  Speaker 6: rose that, since the wind hath her own thorn to show, O,
• 1:55:40
  Speaker 6: who from this fair bower with rose o'er clamber'd roof
• 1:55:45
  Speaker 6: and love to charm the hour would long remain aloof let.
• 1:55:49
  Speaker 6: Others sing of mirth in other kingdoms found give me
• 1:55:54
  Speaker 6: the joys of earth, while I to earth am bound
• 1:56:00
  Speaker 6: a hermit. Once I saw in a vast wilderness, nor God,
• 1:56:05
  Speaker 6: nor creed, nor law, nor wealth, nor yet distress nor learning.
• 1:56:11
  Speaker 6: Had the man what courage like to this that mapping
• 1:56:16
  Speaker 6: out its plan, asks not hopes, not for bliss? And
• 1:56:23
  Speaker 6: wouldst thou at thy feet have this old world, my friend?
• 1:56:28
  Speaker 6: O scornet and retreat and to the very end into thyself,
• 1:56:34
  Speaker 6: And lo, thou art a sage divine, But mix with
• 1:56:39
  Speaker 6: it and know it makes thee. But as swine tis
• 1:56:44
  Speaker 6: well among our kind, to merit their esteem and ill,
• 1:56:48
  Speaker 6: it is to blind ourselves to nature's scheme. But better
• 1:56:53
  Speaker 6: far is this to be far gone in wine than
• 1:56:57
  Speaker 6: with a traitor's kiss betray thought divine, O from this world,
• 1:57:04
  Speaker 6: Let me but for a moment, pass, that I myself
• 1:57:08
  Speaker 6: may be. What dreams are in the glass? What paradise
• 1:57:13
  Speaker 6: looks down with fond inviting gaze? And shall I seek
• 1:57:18
  Speaker 6: the crown? Or go my happy ways? Bring hither wine
• 1:57:24
  Speaker 6: the juice that, like a blossom chain ensnares with ruddiness,
• 1:57:29
  Speaker 6: King clown and hardy swain. One of the three am I,
• 1:57:35
  Speaker 6: and two am surely not or this or that? To
• 1:57:39
  Speaker 6: die is but to be forgot. The wheel of heaven turns,
• 1:57:46
  Speaker 6: and lo what things are we? Or lowly jars or
• 1:57:51
  Speaker 6: urns of aristocracy? It matters not, my dear, what service
• 1:57:56
  Speaker 6: we may do, if while our souls are here, they
• 1:58:00
  Speaker 6: still contain the true weary us, nought with care, when
• 1:58:06
  Speaker 6: pleasure knocks, without enough, and yet to spare? Is there
• 1:58:10
  Speaker 6: of grief about but happiness this way comes not when
• 1:58:15
  Speaker 6: we command, and any time she may forsake her native land.
• 1:58:22
  Speaker 6: Last night, a long lost hope again came back to
• 1:58:26
  Speaker 6: me and said, thy portal ope, and let me dwell
• 1:58:30
  Speaker 6: with thee. Not so, I said, awake, no dream, I
• 1:58:35
  Speaker 6: may not win, she said, for my love's sake. I
• 1:58:41
  Speaker 6: rose and let her in through dusky fields. I went,
• 1:58:47
  Speaker 6: with beauty at my side. When lo, the firmament grew
• 1:58:51
  Speaker 6: sweetly glorified. A light from her did spring that scared
• 1:58:56
  Speaker 6: the night away, and birds began to sing, believing it
• 1:59:01
  Speaker 6: was day.
• 1:59:03
  Speaker 1: YEA, one by one, may go.
• 1:59:05
  Speaker 6: The foolish and the wise disdain the cup of woe,
• 1:59:09
  Speaker 6: and let the sweet arise. Spill all these cups of tears,
• 1:59:14
  Speaker 6: and fill them with a laugh, and bid the flying
• 1:59:17
  Speaker 6: years the brighter nectar quoff. When our two souls no
• 1:59:24
  Speaker 6: more inhabit, frames of clay, earth throwing wide her door
• 1:59:28
  Speaker 6: shall hide the wreck away, and we shall sleep as
• 1:59:32
  Speaker 6: one that were before, as two, when this sad race
• 1:59:37
  Speaker 6: is run that keeps my soul from you. That palace
• 1:59:42
  Speaker 6: of our state, once reared to heaven high, wherein proud
• 1:59:47
  Speaker 6: monarchs sate in ruins, now doth lie and lo we
• 1:59:53
  Speaker 6: saw the dove in sole possession there, and heard the
• 1:59:57
  Speaker 6: pile above her plaintive Where where so long as beauty
• 2:00:04
  Speaker 6: reigns and truth her kingdom is, Oh, give thy heart
• 2:00:09
  Speaker 6: no pains, nor seek a higher bliss, tis wiser far
• 2:00:14
  Speaker 6: to love the fair sweet face of her, who loves
• 2:00:18
  Speaker 6: than be above a peerie's worshiper. Devoid of hope and mirth,
• 2:00:25
  Speaker 6: my heart has grown to be but ashes on the
• 2:00:28
  Speaker 6: hearth of this old hostelry. My dreams, bright guests are gone,
• 2:00:34
  Speaker 6: Gay laughter rings no more, And in the rosy dawn
• 2:00:39
  Speaker 6: there creaks a ruined door. Say who will buy this earth?
• 2:00:46
  Speaker 6: Two barleycorns will take it. If you have one of worth,
• 2:00:50
  Speaker 6: then only one I'll make it. Bring wine. This life
• 2:00:54
  Speaker 6: is vain without the ring of laughter. There is no
• 2:00:58
  Speaker 6: sense in pain here, nor in hereafter Oh cold our
• 2:01:04
  Speaker 6: wisdom's hauls, no laugh is rippled. There and there the
• 2:01:09
  Speaker 6: footstep falls with heaviness and care. Give me the haunts
• 2:01:14
  Speaker 6: of love, where beauty walks divine and singing through the
• 2:01:20
  Speaker 6: grove a fountain and some wine. The life that in
• 2:01:25
  Speaker 6: us dwells bids our strong spirits soar to where that
• 2:01:30
  Speaker 6: fountain wells which sings for evermore alas one draft we sip,
• 2:01:36
  Speaker 6: and lo to earth we fall joy bitters on the lip,
• 2:01:41
  Speaker 6: and darkness shadows all now nightingales rejoice and roses scent
• 2:01:49
  Speaker 6: the air, and lo, the fountain's voice is laughing everywhere.
• 2:01:54
  Speaker 6: What time have we to ope the musty koran sweet,
• 2:01:58
  Speaker 6: when nature, full of hope, flings lyrics at our feet.
• 2:02:03
  Speaker 6: The mantle of this earth I cannot put aside, nor
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  Speaker 6: in the guise of mirth, myne ancient sorrow. Hide, Master,
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  Speaker 6: am I of naught in this great school of care,
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  Speaker 6: though graduate in thought, still pupil of despair. To you,
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  Speaker 6: this mortal cell is an immortal's inn, where for a
• 2:02:27
  Speaker 6: time doth dwell what heaven soon shall win. Think not
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  Speaker 6: the judas tree brings forth the jasmine bud, nor that
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  Speaker 6: clear water be the grape's delightful blood, Just truth and beauty.
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  Speaker 6: These around this world of ours fill all our treasuries
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  Speaker 6: with amarynthan flowers. Let prophets old and sears their dogmas
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  Speaker 6: wild maintain when they are gone, the year's still fragrant
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  Speaker 6: shall remain. O thou who hast not seen the friends
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  Speaker 6: of youth depart whose every path is green with springs
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  Speaker 6: unstudied art in days to come. Vex not thy soul
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  Speaker 6: at Fate's decrees. Be brave, content with what the winter
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  Speaker 6: shall not seize. Be kind, o, friend to all and
• 2:03:25
  Speaker 6: Kyam's wisdom. Learn, leave bitter fruit to fall, and to
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  Speaker 6: the sweet return. Pluck roses, and then weave into a
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  Speaker 6: garland bright let rue and night shade. Grieve with nightingales
• 2:03:41
  Speaker 6: and night were all Earth's treasures. Thine, o mullah, What
• 2:03:47
  Speaker 6: a veil when at the last the sign of death
• 2:03:51
  Speaker 6: makes thee grow pale? How foolish? Then thy heed to
• 2:03:55
  Speaker 6: gather more and more, When nothing shalt thou need of
• 2:03:59
  Speaker 6: all thy bubble store, Think not the fleeting hour, should
• 2:04:05
  Speaker 6: all unheeded die? Oh like the blooming flower pass not
• 2:04:10
  Speaker 6: its beauty by the bud that is unborn, the blossom
• 2:04:15
  Speaker 6: that is past. They are not ours the morn that breaks, Oh,
• 2:04:21
  Speaker 6: hold it fast. Had I the heavens making from this
• 2:04:27
  Speaker 6: gray earth, I'd banish all sorrow and the aching and
• 2:04:31
  Speaker 6: dreams that only vanish. New heavens I would fashion as
• 2:04:36
  Speaker 6: bright as they were spacious, where man devoid of passion
• 2:04:41
  Speaker 6: were free as I were gracious. Each day at dawn,
• 2:04:46
  Speaker 6: I haste unto the house of wine with boon companions,
• 2:04:50
  Speaker 6: taste the wisdom of the vine. O thou, who hast
• 2:04:54
  Speaker 6: the key to all that life doth hide Grief's flagon?
• 2:04:59
  Speaker 6: Why so free joy's cup? Why so denied? Thanks to
• 2:05:06
  Speaker 6: the crafty sun, and thanks to fleeting time, Old Earth
• 2:05:12
  Speaker 6: at last has won the glory of my prime caverns.
• 2:05:16
  Speaker 6: These cheeks for tears, this heart a cup for grief.
• 2:05:21
  Speaker 6: I only ask the years to make my sojourn brief.
• 2:05:26
  Speaker 6: Astronomers point out a bull among the stars. Some say,
• 2:05:31
  Speaker 6: without a doubt he draweth Heaven's cars. Who doubts, Oh
• 2:05:36
  Speaker 6: they are few? A bull this planet gray upholds between
• 2:05:41
  Speaker 6: the two ye gods, what asses bray? Behold the full
• 2:05:48
  Speaker 6: moon rises, Bring music, and bring wine with all your
• 2:05:52
  Speaker 6: sweet devices, Come herald, the divine lo beauty swift advances
• 2:05:59
  Speaker 6: to not of Earth, to us in her immortal glances.
• 2:06:04
  Speaker 6: Woe grows ridiculous. Oh, vainly for the fair, and vainly
• 2:06:10
  Speaker 6: for the sweet. We spread the spirit's snare, and both
• 2:06:14
  Speaker 6: are short and fleet. Tis only that which we may
• 2:06:19
  Speaker 6: have we scorn to hold. The dross of life is free,
• 2:06:24
  Speaker 6: unworth the gain the gold, who gave the right to
• 2:06:29
  Speaker 6: thee to cast at me the stone I am, and
• 2:06:33
  Speaker 6: therefore free to walk my path alone, believing what seems true,
• 2:06:39
  Speaker 6: rejecting holding fast so long as what I do harms
• 2:06:43
  Speaker 6: no one to the last, take wealth away, but leave
• 2:06:49
  Speaker 6: a right good friend to me, and I no more
• 2:06:52
  Speaker 6: will grieve than any rose. You see.
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  Speaker 1: But rob me of.
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  Speaker 6: His heart and make me Heaven's air, and I would
• 2:07:01
  Speaker 6: scorn the part, and only suffer there so deep of
• 2:07:06
  Speaker 6: Beauty's wine my soul would drink that I so nearly
• 2:07:10
  Speaker 6: were divine, that those who happened by should seeing me exclaim, O,
• 2:07:17
  Speaker 6: Beauty is it thou alas her golden fame? I only
• 2:07:23
  Speaker 6: darken now before the cup You d reign that brings
• 2:07:28
  Speaker 6: eternal sleep. Fill all your bins with gain, and all
• 2:07:33
  Speaker 6: your measures heap, for in the realm of rest, as
• 2:07:37
  Speaker 6: all this toil foretells, the rich alone are blest, The
• 2:07:42
  Speaker 6: poor alone are Hell's, while time and earth are ours.
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  Speaker 6: Come dearest, let us love. The dew is on the flowers,
• 2:07:54
  Speaker 6: and mating is the dove. The cup awaits us, sweet O,
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  Speaker 6: let us drain it now again. We may not meet,
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  Speaker 6: or meeting care not how behold the cup is bright
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  Speaker 6: with liquid rubies. Dear o, let their dancing light, thy
• 2:08:15
  Speaker 6: melancholy cheer, give me the blazing ball that I, with
• 2:08:20
  Speaker 6: grief may cope and show unto my soul the rising
• 2:08:24
  Speaker 6: star of hope. While in this house you live, dream
• 2:08:29
  Speaker 6: not of paradise, But what the worth doth give in
• 2:08:33
  Speaker 6: joy before it flies? Yield not to any foe, though
• 2:08:38
  Speaker 6: mighty rustom he nor bond for any go should hate him.
• 2:08:44
  Speaker 6: Ask of thee, wouldst thou that happiness thy boon companion prove?
• 2:08:50
  Speaker 6: Pursue the highway less, and seek the lanes of love.
• 2:08:55
  Speaker 6: Thatched cottages are hers field wood and firmament, and her
• 2:09:00
  Speaker 6: blest worshipers simplicity, content, Farewell to good and ill. The
• 2:09:08
  Speaker 6: miser has no brother. The heart is dead, and chill
• 2:09:12
  Speaker 6: that beats not for another. What though the heavens fall,
• 2:09:17
  Speaker 6: and half the race thereafter saved greed his gold twere
• 2:09:22
  Speaker 6: well the wreck were but his laughter. I saw a
• 2:09:28
  Speaker 6: potter gray bend busy o'er his wheel, and in the
• 2:09:32
  Speaker 6: well mix'd clay beheld what years reveal? I saw the
• 2:09:37
  Speaker 6: heads of kings with feet of beggars. There and Glory's
• 2:09:42
  Speaker 6: golden wings bedraggled by despair, O, youth, sweet health is thine.
• 2:09:49
  Speaker 6: What needest thou of more? No monarch more divine will
• 2:09:55
  Speaker 6: ever fill thy door. The while he is thy guest,
• 2:09:59
  Speaker 6: bethink thee not of care. His favors are the best
• 2:10:03
  Speaker 6: that any soul may share. I broke against a stone
• 2:10:08
  Speaker 6: and earthen jar of mine, when with a feeble moan
• 2:10:12
  Speaker 6: the fragments formed this line. Once I was like to
• 2:10:18
  Speaker 6: thee in ages long ago, soon broken, Thou shalt be
• 2:10:23
  Speaker 6: and formless, lie as low from me to kiam, go
• 2:10:29
  Speaker 6: and bear my greeting kind and say, O bard thy
• 2:10:34
  Speaker 6: So but roses on the wind. If they who drink
• 2:10:38
  Speaker 6: are wise. But if the foolish drink, they nettles, so
• 2:10:43
  Speaker 6: that rise again where least they think, still comes and
• 2:10:49
  Speaker 6: goes my breath and keeps my life in me. While
• 2:10:53
  Speaker 6: round about stalks death, from whom I cannot flee the flagon.
• 2:10:59
  Speaker 6: There is low in that which entertains. Yet who doth
• 2:11:04
  Speaker 6: ever know how much of life remains in some fair garden.
• 2:11:10
  Speaker 6: Place on roses to recline, and thou, with sunny face
• 2:11:15
  Speaker 6: to pour the rosy wine. O many Sultan's great such
• 2:11:20
  Speaker 6: joy cannot command love laughs at bubble state, nor kisses
• 2:11:26
  Speaker 6: back his hand. Be not too fond of folly, nor
• 2:11:31
  Speaker 6: merely knowledge woo. Since dusky Melancholy is comrade of the two.
• 2:11:38
  Speaker 6: The three are pleasant neighbors when kept where they should be,
• 2:11:43
  Speaker 6: and each can sweeten labors if sought judiciously. Lo in
• 2:11:49
  Speaker 6: Love's assemblage, equality doth reign the beggar king and page
• 2:11:55
  Speaker 6: alike his favor gain, and one and all may feast.
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  Speaker 6: The cup of love is free, and only he is
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  Speaker 6: least that's least in sympathy. End of section five, verses
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  Speaker 6: three hundred twenty one through four hundred.
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  Speaker 3: Section six of omar Rie Sung. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 3: All libriyvox recordings are in a public domain. For more
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• 2:12:35
  Speaker 3: by algipug omar Rie Sung by Charles G. Blandon being
• 2:12:41
  Speaker 3: a verse rendering of the prose translation of the Rubiat
• 2:12:44
  Speaker 3: of Omar Khayam by Justin Huntley McCarthy. Section six, verses
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  Speaker 3: four hundred one to four hundred and sixty six. Thou
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  Speaker 3: hast shorn with thy sword all my branches of light.
• 2:12:59
  Speaker 3: Thou hast broken me, Lord, in the press of thy might.
• 2:13:03
  Speaker 3: Thou hast given me my wine to the lips of
• 2:13:05
  Speaker 3: the earth and the hope of the vine. Say, what
• 2:13:09
  Speaker 3: is it worth? What empire? Sweet? Is this enough of
• 2:13:14
  Speaker 3: sparkling wine, a cup of which is bliss and too,
• 2:13:18
  Speaker 3: perchance divine the realm of fairy doon the crown of kaikssrue?
• 2:13:24
  Speaker 3: What are they to the noon of life? Red wine?
• 2:13:27
  Speaker 3: And you? The season now is here of rose and nightingale.
• 2:13:33
  Speaker 3: Close thou, the Kuran, dear for spring's delightful tale. My
• 2:13:38
  Speaker 3: book is laughing eyes and cheeks oculip flame, wherein my
• 2:13:43
  Speaker 3: heaven lies and love inscribes his name to Misstaffa the wise,
• 2:13:49
  Speaker 3: my kindly greetings, give and ask what virtue lies in
• 2:13:53
  Speaker 3: solemness to live? Why al Koran doth frown on laughter?
• 2:13:58
  Speaker 3: Loving wine offers them a crown that on the bitter dine,
• 2:14:04
  Speaker 3: O thou who makest day swart, servant of thy gain,
• 2:14:08
  Speaker 3: and turnest night away with her dream laden train. A
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  Speaker 3: time shall come to thee when for one little hour
• 2:14:16
  Speaker 3: thou wouldst forego the fee of all thy golden power.
• 2:14:20
  Speaker 3: Our altar is the jar our oracle, the wine, and
• 2:14:24
  Speaker 3: may the day be far that rears another shrine. What
• 2:14:28
  Speaker 3: prayers to make we know, and asking we receive, while
• 2:14:33
  Speaker 3: those to mosque that go gain but the right to grieve.
• 2:14:38
  Speaker 3: Give me my dreams to day to morrow. What you will.
• 2:14:42
  Speaker 3: I cannot throw away the hope that haunts me still.
• 2:14:45
  Speaker 3: I would not give the flower that blossoms now for
• 2:14:48
  Speaker 3: me for any promised bow that may or may not be.
• 2:14:54
  Speaker 3: The brown bird tells his tale, and blooming is the rose,
• 2:14:58
  Speaker 3: and through the leafy vale a spicy odor goes. The
• 2:15:02
  Speaker 3: world forgets its grief, and I will mind forget, to
• 2:15:06
  Speaker 3: laugh with bird and leaf, and banish old regret. We
• 2:15:11
  Speaker 3: are the sometime keys of life's great instrument, whereby time's melodies,
• 2:15:16
  Speaker 3: through all the year's assent, touch'd by some hand divine,
• 2:15:21
  Speaker 3: we voice what note he wills till lost in ether
• 2:15:25
  Speaker 3: fine alone the silence thrills if in a month of fast,
• 2:15:30
  Speaker 3: unto my cup I cling tis not I deem that
• 2:15:34
  Speaker 3: past which can no pleasure bring, but that the thought
• 2:15:37
  Speaker 3: of loss so turns my day to night. I cannot
• 2:15:41
  Speaker 3: buy the dross and sell the old delight. I search
• 2:15:46
  Speaker 3: the golden pages of Love's immortal book, and from the
• 2:15:50
  Speaker 3: Sage of Sages this legend old I took. As happy
• 2:15:54
  Speaker 3: as a god is he that loveth beauty, and bound
• 2:15:58
  Speaker 3: unto the sod, is also to duty. I look'd into
• 2:16:03
  Speaker 3: the past and of the future. Thought throughout the world.
• 2:16:06
  Speaker 3: I cast the net of wisdom wrought yet found. But
• 2:16:10
  Speaker 3: mortals too, The one are nothing small, the other born
• 2:16:14
  Speaker 3: to do a noble work for all tranquility. O, friend,
• 2:16:20
  Speaker 3: should thy good motto be, Think not upon the end
• 2:16:24
  Speaker 3: nor of eternity. What thou hast done or thought is
• 2:16:28
  Speaker 3: but an atom's vaunt, too small. Where stars are wrought
• 2:16:32
  Speaker 3: for merit or for taunt. Hail, Hail to the green earth,
• 2:16:38
  Speaker 3: the green green trees above, and with as bright a mirth,
• 2:16:42
  Speaker 3: Hail to as bright a love. Hail, Hail the youthful dream,
• 2:16:48
  Speaker 3: and hail the sparkling eye. Until by this glad stream
• 2:16:52
  Speaker 3: beneath the grass we lie quintessence of the sum of
• 2:16:57
  Speaker 3: all created things. Think not what wore shall come with
• 2:17:01
  Speaker 3: their loud flapping wings. One come from Saki, quoff from
• 2:17:05
  Speaker 3: Saki the divine, And thou canst give the laugh to
• 2:17:09
  Speaker 3: Ages in his wine. Awake, Awake, my flower, and sip
• 2:17:15
  Speaker 3: the wine of morn. The day is in his bower,
• 2:17:18
  Speaker 3: and I alone forlorn. Come forth, Come forth and be
• 2:17:23
  Speaker 3: the bloom of blooms my rose, that time beholding thee
• 2:17:28
  Speaker 3: forget his mighty woes. Within the book of life, joy, sorrow, weel,
• 2:17:35
  Speaker 3: and woe make all the chapter's rife with ever changing flow.
• 2:17:40
  Speaker 3: What boots it where we read, or what the end
• 2:17:43
  Speaker 3: may be? With every rosa weed holds joint supremacy, The
• 2:17:49
  Speaker 3: constant babblings cease, that of the Koran tells, give me
• 2:17:53
  Speaker 3: a little peace. The rose that with me dwells. She
• 2:17:57
  Speaker 3: troubles not her wit with any thought of grief. Since
• 2:18:01
  Speaker 3: paradise is writ on every fragrant leaf, Why Croth chanter
• 2:18:06
  Speaker 3: clear at dawning of the day to tell you that
• 2:18:09
  Speaker 3: more dear, dear dreams are slipp'd away, the time is
• 2:18:14
  Speaker 3: on the wing, and that another morn still finds you
• 2:18:17
  Speaker 3: but a thing for laughter and for scorn. Old earth
• 2:18:22
  Speaker 3: is full of sorrow, and we that from its spring thrive.
• 2:18:26
  Speaker 3: But to day to morrow are but a withered thing.
• 2:18:29
  Speaker 3: The wind that sweetly kisses the fragrant rose to day
• 2:18:33
  Speaker 3: the morrow never misses to whirl in scorn away. So
• 2:18:38
  Speaker 3: sodden are we grown, Thy counsels cheerest not, and in
• 2:18:42
  Speaker 3: our grief alone, sin scarcely is forgot upon ourselves. We
• 2:18:47
  Speaker 3: feed in every crumb we eat, since paying thee no heed,
• 2:18:52
  Speaker 3: we cast away. The sweet absorb me. Lord, in thee
• 2:18:57
  Speaker 3: as thou art my good friend, me myself set free,
• 2:19:01
  Speaker 3: and all my riddles end. Let good and evil cease
• 2:19:05
  Speaker 3: in this poor heart of mine, and in the central peace.
• 2:19:09
  Speaker 3: Let me be wholly thine for this, my captive heart,
• 2:19:13
  Speaker 3: have mercy, Lord, I pray and mercy for the part
• 2:19:18
  Speaker 3: in this vain face. I play yea mercy for the
• 2:19:22
  Speaker 3: lips that love the ruby bold, and for the foot
• 2:19:25
  Speaker 3: that slips, and for the wayward soul. I am what
• 2:19:30
  Speaker 3: fate decreed. A hundred years of time have richly met
• 2:19:34
  Speaker 3: my need. As rhyme doth mate with rhyme, Might I
• 2:19:38
  Speaker 3: but live an age? And henceforth only sin thy love
• 2:19:42
  Speaker 3: could cleanse the page. Thy pity fold me in. Say,
• 2:19:47
  Speaker 3: who hath never sinn'd and who can sin appose? Do
• 2:19:52
  Speaker 3: straws when comes the wind bend not the way it goes?
• 2:19:56
  Speaker 3: If therefore thou dost curse the little fault in me
• 2:20:00
  Speaker 3: curse or curse a worse, since all doth come from THEE, justice,
• 2:20:06
  Speaker 3: the soul of earth, our senses, angels bright, and the
• 2:20:10
  Speaker 3: whole sum of worth, humanity and right. This is the
• 2:20:14
  Speaker 3: mighty One, and this the endless light, that not in
• 2:20:18
  Speaker 3: unison is nothingness, and night unworth a barley corn are
• 2:20:24
  Speaker 3: all the cares of time? Behold, from morn to morn
• 2:20:28
  Speaker 3: we sing a merry rhyme. Enough have we content the woods,
• 2:20:34
  Speaker 3: the fields, the hills, the starry firmament, and freedom of
• 2:20:38
  Speaker 3: our wills. My poor heart, drown'd in love alas no more,
• 2:20:44
  Speaker 3: may rise to be the sharer of hope's ancient paradise.
• 2:20:48
  Speaker 3: But when love's wine is poured in each red cup,
• 2:20:51
  Speaker 3: I see the guests about the board, quaff off the
• 2:20:55
  Speaker 3: blood of me less wine. They bid me drink, who
• 2:21:00
  Speaker 3: know me not too well. When I refuse, they think
• 2:21:03
  Speaker 3: me maddened unto hell. So let them think my wine
• 2:21:08
  Speaker 3: is my beloved's face, whose smiles and wiles divine the
• 2:21:12
  Speaker 3: world cannot displace, O thou, whose lips are wet with
• 2:21:16
  Speaker 3: life's sweet morning dew. I pray THEE not forget to
• 2:21:20
  Speaker 3: kiss my cup of rue, which if thou dost believe, Oh,
• 2:21:25
  Speaker 3: drain the cup with bliss, and teach my heart to grieve,
• 2:21:29
  Speaker 3: that I may taste the kiss. Let us haste to
• 2:21:33
  Speaker 3: the meads, Let us rose by the streams where the
• 2:21:36
  Speaker 3: bright fancy leads. Let us weave our dreams. Yea, the
• 2:21:41
  Speaker 3: buds of this hour are but the hopes of the past,
• 2:21:44
  Speaker 3: and to morrow's fair flower in the present is caste.
• 2:21:49
  Speaker 3: The brain is but an inn where many guests do come,
• 2:21:53
  Speaker 3: and some our friendship win, and only hatred some. Now
• 2:21:58
  Speaker 3: for the genial guest, be thou the genial host, and
• 2:22:02
  Speaker 3: count that day the best wherein the mean is lost wound,
• 2:22:07
  Speaker 3: not the happy heart nor any dream destroy, since thou
• 2:22:11
  Speaker 3: hast not the art at will to fashion joy. Be
• 2:22:14
  Speaker 3: bringer of glad news, and to the hopeless kind, the
• 2:22:18
  Speaker 3: armorer of thews that shall his sorrow bind. Some travel
• 2:22:23
  Speaker 3: with a creed upon a pleasant road, supplying every need
• 2:22:28
  Speaker 3: and easing every load with faith. Some hesitate to take
• 2:22:32
  Speaker 3: this path forsooth, when lo the voice of fate. In
• 2:22:36
  Speaker 3: neither way is truth. Where are the lips we kissed,
• 2:22:41
  Speaker 3: the eyes as bright as dee? How is it we
• 2:22:44
  Speaker 3: have missed the loving and the true ah that is
• 2:22:47
  Speaker 3: turned to dust, which was a peri's form, And all
• 2:22:51
  Speaker 3: the world is rust and vital for the worm, companion
• 2:22:56
  Speaker 3: of old wrong, a voider of the right. Yet lifting
• 2:22:59
  Speaker 3: up thy song to him who is the light, beware
• 2:23:03
  Speaker 3: the path is straight. Nor is he more secure who
• 2:23:07
  Speaker 3: vauntful seeks the gate than he who shuns the pure
• 2:23:12
  Speaker 3: o just with joy to dwell in some delightful vale
• 2:23:17
  Speaker 3: the saddest dreams its hell, that of the nightingale, with
• 2:23:21
  Speaker 3: love to pour the wine, and beauty's eyes for light, forsooth,
• 2:23:25
  Speaker 3: with thee, and thine to be the king of night.
• 2:23:29
  Speaker 3: This heaven arching dome commands the wise man's owe, While
• 2:23:34
  Speaker 3: those who stagger home know neither hope nor law. The
• 2:23:38
  Speaker 3: cup and jar no, not the spirit they contain. They
• 2:23:41
  Speaker 3: merely squander what it was no toil to gain a
• 2:23:45
  Speaker 3: drop from ocean tossed, lamented, its sad fate to be
• 2:23:49
  Speaker 3: in exile, lost to every crystal mate the great old ocean.
• 2:23:53
  Speaker 3: Spake still thy art one with me, Since all but
• 2:23:57
  Speaker 3: one doth make, and I part of thee. Is there
• 2:24:02
  Speaker 3: no place to rest, no path that leads there too.
• 2:24:06
  Speaker 3: Yea in the Earth's great breast is peace for me
• 2:24:10
  Speaker 3: and you, Oh, that in after years, when we must
• 2:24:14
  Speaker 3: live again, that we come forth as spears of grass,
• 2:24:18
  Speaker 3: and not as men. Oh, not for this old earth,
• 2:24:22
  Speaker 3: let any tear be shed, But steep your soul in
• 2:24:25
  Speaker 3: mirth and count it dross instead, For what is gait
• 2:24:29
  Speaker 3: of it but loss of all its true The blossom
• 2:24:32
  Speaker 3: has more wit and scorns. What misers do? Friend, Know
• 2:24:37
  Speaker 3: thyself and say, what hither didst thou bring? What canst
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  Speaker 3: thou take away? Of gold or anything? Thou wouldst not
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  Speaker 3: take thy woe? Then happy be while here, or grief
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  Speaker 3: or joy? We know the end is but the beer.
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  Speaker 3: Let not the world oppress, nor vex thy soul with
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  Speaker 3: thought that they are nothingness. Who once at thy weel
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  Speaker 3: wrought to beauty, freely give the best that life can
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  Speaker 3: claim that they who later live look high to read
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  Speaker 3: thy name. That hour wherein we drink of beauty and
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  Speaker 3: of truth, we stand upon the brink of everlasting youth.
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  Speaker 3: Age cannot dim the soul whose flight from morn to
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  Speaker 3: morn is toward that lofty goal where love and light
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  Speaker 3: are born. This laughing fountain here that sparkles in the
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  Speaker 3: sun like our two spirits, dear with song, is never
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  Speaker 3: done these dazzling moments. Love, though born of time and earth,
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  Speaker 3: catch brightness from above and flood the hour with mirth.
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  Speaker 3: Fate this to me doth give sad night and sad
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  Speaker 3: a day near thee. I may not live. I cannot
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  Speaker 3: live away. Oh sorrow all too great, Oh lot too
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  Speaker 3: hard to bear, Oh cruel, cruel fate and earth this
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  Speaker 3: passion fair. If thou wouldst draw a veil about the
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  Speaker 3: heart that's free, or shroud with gloom the hail bright
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  Speaker 3: face of liberty, go mourn thy wisdom lost, and in
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  Speaker 3: the lairs of men, move with thy forehead, crost with
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  Speaker 3: fool and fool again. I would that Earth again were builded,
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  Speaker 3: and I there with power to succor men and make
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  Speaker 3: their pathways fair. Or failing this, to blot from life
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  Speaker 3: the mind of me to be unknown, forgot, or else
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  Speaker 3: be lov'd by thee some good red wine, Give me
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  Speaker 3: a book of verses, bright, a loaf of bread to
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  Speaker 3: fee the gresser appetite, and thou to love me sweet,
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  Speaker 3: all in a garden fair God's knowing, My retreat would
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  Speaker 3: scenter heaven There. Truth hath no need to fear. She
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  Speaker 3: hunteth not belief, She fighteth with no spear. She bindeth
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  Speaker 3: up yet all before her throne, which no rude hand
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  Speaker 3: can shake. At last her prowess own, and love her
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  Speaker 3: for her sake. If sorrow thou wouldst flee, press to
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  Speaker 3: thy brows her crown, resign thyself, and she will half
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  Speaker 3: forget to frown, And wouldst thou taste the wine of
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  Speaker 3: Earth's supremest wealth. Thank Heaven, thou dost thine with honor
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  Speaker 3: and with health. The roses are in blossom, Bring wine
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  Speaker 3: and quit your sighs. Come fill your gloomy bosom with
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  Speaker 3: balm of paradise. Be happy not to morrow, be happy
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  Speaker 3: sweet to day before the grip of sorrow, snatch life
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  Speaker 3: itself away. Be hypocrite, no more, delight in love and song,
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  Speaker 3: and shut the solidor on grief and all her throng.
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  Speaker 3: Mohammed's laws be thine. But when our alli pause, except
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  Speaker 3: his proffer'd wine and bless What joy adores the world
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  Speaker 3: to those who love it is nothing more than loss.
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  Speaker 3: To those who look above, it tis something more than
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  Speaker 3: dross than Why upon the bubble so fondly gaze, my friend,
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  Speaker 3: and fill thy days with trouble? For what in smoke
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  Speaker 3: doth end o thou essence unknown, to whom my soul
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  Speaker 3: is blind, to whom my heart is stone groping I
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  Speaker 3: something fine that bids me hope and trust this darkness
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  Speaker 3: Yet may rise that thou art good and just hell
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  Speaker 3: less than paradise. Now, while a fountain sing and every
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  Speaker 3: bird is gay vex not the mirth of spring, nor
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  Speaker 3: chide her round delay. A breath of stormy wind shall
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  Speaker 3: hurl thy roses far an autumn. Surely find how many
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  Speaker 3: thorns there are? If thou didst make me aye an
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  Speaker 3: individual soul? Why wouldst thou let me die into the whole?
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  Speaker 3: If purposing to slay? Why broughtest thou me here to
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  Speaker 3: strut my little day and then to disappear? Why dost
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  Speaker 3: thou threaten me? Am I worth more in fear than
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  Speaker 3: in the liberty of reasons gold and sphere? Say what
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  Speaker 3: were paradise? If man be thus undone a region where
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  Speaker 3: the wise are lacking, barring none O heart, If thou
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  Speaker 3: wert dumb to many headed sin pure soul, wouldst thou
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  Speaker 3: become and hopes hy vantage win? Then what a shame
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  Speaker 3: and loss? With beauty O so near in this vile house?
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  Speaker 3: Of dross too long to have sojourn here O Potter
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  Speaker 3: cometh soon, thy busy weal unto the head of Feri
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  Speaker 3: doon the hand of Kaikosru beware degrade no more the
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  Speaker 3: helpless clay of men, nor count amongst thy store that
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  Speaker 3: which may live again. If life hath been a feast,
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  Speaker 3: what then hast thou to show when this thy mansion
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  Speaker 3: least falls to the flood below. If thou hast lived
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  Speaker 3: an age, and live an age remote time blots thy
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  Speaker 3: little page and laughs at what he wrote? And canst
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  Speaker 3: thou tell me, sweet, why cypress tree and rose such
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  Speaker 3: fair renown do meet? And neither any foes with many hands.
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  Speaker 3: The tree doth bless our silent tombs, with lips that
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  Speaker 3: fragrant be. The rose doth kiss the glooms lo The
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  Speaker 3: zephyr of eve wafts the scent of the rose, and
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  Speaker 3: the nightingales grieve wheresoever it goes, and the soul of
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  Speaker 3: the flower, through the heart of the bird re impassions
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  Speaker 3: the power. As the fragrance is heard, alas for summer
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  Speaker 3: has flown, alas this leafless tree, alas that I have
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  Speaker 3: grown the laugh of time to be the sum of joy.
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  Speaker 3: I sought the melody of spring. Alas I little thought,
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  Speaker 3: how death shrouds everything with this or that? How long
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  Speaker 3: shall we disturb our width? If life ye but a song,
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  Speaker 3: or just the dream of it? The breath I now
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  Speaker 3: breathe in, perchance I breathe not out, bring wine, or
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  Speaker 3: not begin to question joy with doubt in this proud
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  Speaker 3: house of life. Drink deep, philosopher of the strong wine
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  Speaker 3: of strife, and be Love's worshiper. And wheereso e're thy
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  Speaker 3: dost through this wild world may blow, their strength shall
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  Speaker 3: spring and trust and every virtue grow Here endeth Oma
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  Speaker 3: Rie sung being verses by Charles G. Blandon after the
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  Speaker 3: prose translation of the Rubaiyat of Omar Khay'am has set
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  Speaker 3: forth by Justin Huntley McCarthy, m P. The cover, title
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  Speaker 3: page and in papers were designed by Frank B. Ray Junior,
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  Speaker 3: the whole being printed and sold by Langworthy and Stevens
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  Speaker 3: at the House of the Blue Sky Press four thousand,
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  Speaker 3: seven hundred and thirty two Kinwood Avenue in Chicago, Illinois,
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  Speaker 3: done in September nineteen o one. End of section six
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  Speaker 3: versus four hundred one to four hundred and sixty six
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  Speaker 3: End of Omar re sung by Charles G. Blandon