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The Sufism of the Rubáiyát

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Norton F. W. Hazeldine translation

And thus was man made and placed in this garden of iram fair, with his soul to comfort and give cheer, till death makes free again. He in this inverted bowl is poured, and there must remain 'tis said, till dust to dust returns again and that freed soul has winged its way to where the deathless dwell.

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