The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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LXXXV.

Then said a Second—“Ne’er a peevish Boy
Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy;
    And He that with his hand the Vessel made
Will surely not in after Wrath destroy.”

LXXXVI.

After a momentary silence spake
Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;
    “They sneer at me for leaning all awry:
What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?”