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| Keywords: 069-helpless-Pieces-of-the-Game-He-plays-q75-775x1147.jpg Helpless Pieces of the Game he Plays Omar Khayyam tr Edward Fitzgerald The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam 1905 1912 http //www fromoldbooks org/Fitzgerald-Rubaiyat/ 1905 Adelaide Hanscom and Blanche Cumming fl 1902 - 1924 Creator Adelaide Hanscom PD-old In the picture an old white-bearded man wearing a green robe and headband is holding one hand aloft and beckoning with the other LXV The Revelations of Devout and Learn �d Who rose before us and as Prophets burn �d Are all but Stories which awoke from Sleep They told their comrades and to Sleep return �d LXVI I sent my Soul through the Invisible Some letter of that After-life to spell And by and by my Soul return �d to me And answer �d I Myself am Heav �n and Hell LXVII Heav �n but the Vision of fulfill �d Desire And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves So late emerged from shall so soon expire LXVIII We are no other than a moving row Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held In Midnight by the Master of the Show; LXIX But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves and checks and slays And one by one back in the Closet lays LXX The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes But Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that toss �d you down into the Field He knows about it all �HE knows �HE knows The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Adelaide Hanscom | ||||
