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“These pearls of thought in Persian gulfs were bred, Each softly lucent as a rounded moon; The diver Omar plucked them from their bed, Fitzgerald strung them on an English thread.”
Provenance
- Source:
- In a copy of Omar Khayyám.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 2bfb5228009198c4c1c51d0fde4683029b3143d13fb36b65ddad4884cbac4a0c
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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