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The Moving Finger

Posted in Poetry with tags , , on May 18, 2012 by telescoper

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.

from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (trans. E.M. Fitzgerald)

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