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Chalice of Heaven

Venerated as the embodiment of perfect beauty when brought to poet Omar Khayyam: 

“As then the Tulip for her morning sup

Of Heav'nly Vintage from the Soil looks up,

Do you devoutly do the like, till Heav'n

To Earth invert you -- like an empty Cup.”

 

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