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I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head.
Approximate author period: c. 1089 AD · medieval
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- Omar Khayyam
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- Approximate author period: c. 1089 AD · medieval
Approximate period for recorded attribution label Omar Khayyam: recorded author lifetime 1048–1131. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q35900 (checked 2026-10-08). The existing author record is omar-khayyam; no author identity is bound and no quotation composition date or attribution is independently verified.
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