The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
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Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go, Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum.Edward Fitzgerald
And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass Among the Guests Star-scattered on the Grass, And in thy joyous Errand reach the Spot Where I made one - turn down an empty Glass.
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Ah Love could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this Sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits and then Remold it nearer to the Hearts Desire.
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Striking from the Calendar Unborn Tomorrow and dead Yesterday.
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The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop, The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one.
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Into this Universe, and Why not knowing; Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing; And out of it, as Wind along the Waste, I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing.
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