The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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LIX.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute
The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:
    The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice
Life’s leaden metal into Gold transmute;

LX.

The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord,
That all the misbelieving and black Horde
    Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul
Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.