“Yon rising Moon that looks for us again —
How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;
How oft hereafter rising look for us
Through this same Garden — and for one in vain!”

The Rubaiyat (1120)

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

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