XLIX
'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.
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:
Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,
And one by one back in the Closet lays.
The Rubáiyat of Omar Khayyám
Translated by Edward Fitzgerald
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