The Palace that to Heav'n his pillars threw, And Kings the forehead on his threshold drew - I saw the solitary Ringdove there, And "Coo, coo, coo," she cried; and "Coo, coo, coo." Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909.

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