Look to the Rose that blows about us—'Lo, Laughing,' she says, 'into the World I blow, At once the silken Tassel of my Purse Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw.'
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza VIII
c. 11th-12th century
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