But that is but a Tent wherein may rest A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest; The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrásh Strikes, and prepares it for another guest. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909.

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