The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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I.

WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter’d into flight
The Stars before him from the Field of Night,
    Drives Night along with them from Heav’n, and strikes
The Sultan’s Turret with a Shaft of Light.

II.

Before the phantom of False morning died,
Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,
    “When all the Temple is prepared within,
Why nods the drowsy Worshiper outside?”