Omar Khayyam


        For in and out, above, about, below,
        'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,
        Play'd in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,
        Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

The Rubayyat of Omar Khayyam
Verse XLVIII
Translated into English in 1859
by Edward FitzGerald