“Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,
Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough
Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires.”

—  Omar Khayyám

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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