From the Rubáiyát
Yesterday This Day's Madness did prepare;Tomorrow's Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
Drink! for you not know whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.
Here's a link
to these lines from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám,translated by Edward FitzGerald. Yet another link ,that gets into the apprecition of this poem, is this one.
1 Comments:
This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.
Post a Comment
<< Home