But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
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I sent my Soul through the Invisible,Some letter of that After-life to spell:
And after many days my Soul return'd
And said, "Behold, Myself am Heav'n and Hell.
Omar Khayyam
Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum.
Omar Khayyam
And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die, Lift not thy hands to It for help --for It Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
Omar Khayyam
Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough, A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse -- and Thou; Beside me singing in the Wilderness --And Wilderness is Paradise enow.
Omar Khayyam
The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
Omar Khayyam
Drink! for you know not whence you came nor why: drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Omar Khayyam
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