Nature

XXVIII

by Edward FitzGerald 1809–1883

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Nature

With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd--
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

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