The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Fills the all-empty Spirit, and can transmute Base Metal into Gold, and Gold to Life.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza LIX
c. 11th-12th century
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