Living
XLVIX
From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Living
'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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FitzGerald, Edward. “XLVIX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/25/.
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FitzGerald, Edward. “XLVIX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/fitzgerald/25/.
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