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And fear not lest Existence closing your
Account should lose or know the type no more:
The Eternal Sáki from that Bowl has poured
Millions of Bubbles like us and will pour.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)
You know how little while we have to stay,
And, once departed, may return no more.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)
Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)
I came like Water, and like Wind I go.
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120)
A Moment's Halt — a momentary taste
Of Being from the Well amid the Waste —
And Lo! — the phantom Caravan has reach'd
The Nothing it set out from — Oh, make haste!
FitzGerald, Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859)