The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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LXXXIII.

Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,
That stood along the floor and by the wall;
    And some loquacious Vessels were; and some
Listen’d perhaps, but never talk’d at all.

LXXXIV.

Said one among them—“Surely not in vain
My substance of the common Earth was ta’en
    And to this Figure molded, to be broke,
Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again.”