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Omar Khayyam - The Rubaiyat - ‘I myself am Heaven and Hell’
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Type of Spiritual Experience
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
I sent my soul through the Invisible
Some better of that After-life to spell
And by and by my soul returned to me
And answered ‘I myself am Heaven and Hell’
Heaven but the Vision of fulfilled Desire
And Hell the shadow from a soul on fire
Cast on the darkness into which Ourselves
So late emerged from, shall so soon expire