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Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!

افســـوس که نــامه جـــــوانی طـــــــی شــــد

That, Youth's sweet-scented Manuscript should close!

و آن تــــازه بـــهار زنـــــدگانـــــی دی شــــد

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The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,

آن مرغ طــــرب که نـــام او بــــــود شبـــــاب

Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!

فـــــریاد ندانـــــــم که کــــی آمــد، کــــی شــــد

[Khayyam's (1048-1131) quatrain; translated by Edward Fritz Gerald]

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