“There may be more to paradise than the cessation of pain, but, oh, it seems almost paradise enough.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,
A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread–and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness–
Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
~ The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (tr. Edward FitzGerald, 5th ed)
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