“Perplext no more with Human or Divine,
To-morrow's tangle to the winds resign,
And lose your fingers in the tresses of
The Cypress — slender Minister of Wine.”

—  Omar Khayyám

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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