And if the wine you drink, the lip you press, end in the nothing all things end in — yes —

Helen M. Sinclair

Illustration for verse 47 of The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

Source: Modern Book Illustrators and heir Work, p. 166.

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Formatting and text by George P. Landow

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