The Rubaiyat of Omer Khayyam (35) [Archives:2006/958/Culture]
June 26 2006
Translated by Edward FitzGerald
Tis all a chequerboard of nights and days
Where destiny with men for pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates and slays,
And one by one back in the closet lays.
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