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