Deja Vu all over again!

chris chevhq at gmail.com
Tue Jul 5 08:15:27 UTC 2011


On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 15:44 +0800, Goh Lip wrote:
> On 07/05/2011 01:02 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
> 
> >>> And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,
> >>> Whereunder crawling coop't we live and die,
> >>> Lift not thy hands to *It* for help---for It
> >>> Rolls impotently on as Thou or I.
> >>> -- Omar Khayamm
> >>>
> >> from the rubyat
> >
> > I prefer the interpretation (?second edition) where the last line reads:
> >
> >
> > "As impotently moves as you or I".
> >
> > My favourite 2 stanzas are:
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
> 
> Isn't this better?.
> 
> '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.
>                     ------- Omar Khayyam
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> Oh, Thou, who didst with Pitfall and with Gin
> Beset the Road I was to wander in,
> Thou wilt not with Predestination round
> Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?
> 
> 
Ah  that takes me back to younger days!
A great poet that fellow
cheers





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