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Omar Khayyam (1048-1131) Myself when..and With them the seed..(Post 119).

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor(scholars) and Saint, and heard great Argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.
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With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own hand labored it to grow:
And this was all the Harvest that I reaped---
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

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