Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we sha — Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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Were it not Folly, Spider-like to spinThe Thread of present Life away to win-What? for ourselves, who know not if we shallBreathe out the very Breath we now breathe in!

— Omar Khayyám, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
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