Page:Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam - Fitzgerald's translation.djvu/30

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The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes,
But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ;
And He that toss'd Thee down into the Field,
He knows about it all — He knows — HE knows !


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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.