The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
(The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam)
Edward FitzGerald
Orion's Cold Fire
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