But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days
Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays.
-"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1859
But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays
Upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days
Hither and thither moves, and checks and slays.
-"The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam," translated by Edward FitzGerald, 1859