from The Rubaiyat 2 by Omar Khayyam

Ah! my beloved, fill the cup that clears
To-day of past regrets and future fears–
To-morrow?–Why, to-morrow I may be
Myself with yesterday’s sev’n thousand years.

translated by Edward FitzGerald

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