The poem is not in binary though, 01001101 01101111 01110010 01101110 01101001 01101110 01100111 00100000 01100001 00100000 01110100 01101000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100001 01101110 01100100 00100000 01010010 01101111 01110011 01100101 01110011 00100000 01100010 01110010 01101001 01101110 01100111 01110011 0101100 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01110011 01100001 01111001 0111011 - a verse from The Rubayyat, Translated into English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald
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