The Rubáiyát (excerpt)
Omar Khayyám (c. 1133)
The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: not 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 moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: not all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.