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Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,
A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse — and Thou
Beside me singing in the Wilderness —
And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
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Notes:
A rubaiyat (an Arabic word) is a long poem written in quatrains that employ the rhyme scheme aaba.
“Enow” equals “enough.”
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