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Wednesday, 24 April 2013

Wise and Beautiful Words

From Edward Fitzgerald's wonderful working of ancient Persian verses, known as The Rubâ'iyât of Omar Khayyám:

XLIX 

'Tis all a Chequer-board 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.
 
'Tis very likely that I shall be quoting again from this wonderful poem.

Until the next Time 
 
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