Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XLIX
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám (1859) — Quatrain XLIX
Omar Khayyam
'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.
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Complete 75-quatrain first edition, 1859. FitzGerald’s free English rendering. · Translated by Edward FitzGerald
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