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Omar Khayyam

The Ruba'iyat Of Omar Khayyam

The Moving Finger writes; and having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The Ruba'iyat Of Omar Khayyam

We are the pieces of the game that plays the sky;
We amuse ourselves with ourselves on the chessboard of Being;
And then we are returned, one by one, to the box of Nothingness.