The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (37) [Archives:2006/962/Culture]
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
The moving finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all thy tears wash out a word of it.
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