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Xipe Totec

(43,888 posts)
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 08:59 PM Dec 2017

A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, says the first verse...

But the second...

Some for the Glories of This World; and some
Sigh for the Prophet's Paradise to come;
Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,
Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!


http://www.bartleby.com/101/698.html

From Omar Khayyám

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A Loaf of Bread, a Jug of Wine, says the first verse... (Original Post) Xipe Totec Dec 2017 OP
A favorite of mine, but that version was very much shorter... flotsam Dec 2017 #1

flotsam

(3,268 posts)
1. A favorite of mine, but that version was very much shorter...
Mon Dec 4, 2017, 09:20 PM
Dec 2017

...it misses some of my favorites:

VII.
Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring
The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To fly - and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing.

XXVIII.
Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise
To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;
One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;
The Flower that once has blown forever dies.

LVIII.
'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.

LX.
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.



Here's a different version:
https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-rubaiyat-of-omar-khayyam/

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