2 passages by Omar Khayyám, from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. Omar Khayyám died in 1131, so the words are in the public domain; the English translation by Edward FitzGerald is too. Every passage is copied word for word from the Project Gutenberg text.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread—and ThouBeside me singing in the Wilderness—Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
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