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“A Moment's Halt--a momentary taste Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-- And, Lo! the phantom Caravan has reach'd The NOTHING it set out from. Oh, make haste!”
Provenance
- Source:
- Rubáiyát. Stanza xlviii.
- Type:
- Book
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- 8edd5cf0d07b16146f65fbbde21c19c7ac159652cceae78362a54062fda38d6e
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Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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