 | Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1888 - 138 pages
...One thing is certain and the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd...tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all but... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1889 - 532 pages
...threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain—This Life flies; LXIV. Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the...tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. LXV. The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1890 - 164 pages
...thing is certain and the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown forever dies. LXIV. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd...tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. LXV. The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are all... | |
 | Susan Coolidge - Calendars - 1890 - 382 pages
...findeth me findeth life. — PROV. viii. 35STRANGE, is it not, that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. OMAR KHAYYAM. THERE'S nae sorrow there, John; There 's neither cauld nor care, John ; The day... | |
 | Israel Abrahams, Claude Goldsmid Montefiore - Jewish philosophy - 1895 - 282 pages
...him too has struck the appointed hour. Strange, is it not, that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the way Which to discover we must travel too. The fact that death may come soon or late, suddenly or after... | |
 | Liza Lehmann - Song cycles - 1896 - 104 pages
...prest, Have drunk their Cup a round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. Strange, is it not, that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the...tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel too. (TENOR RECITATIVE.) Ah, fill the Cup ! What boots it to repeat How time is slipping underneath... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - Bookbinding - 1896 - 400 pages
...is certain and the rest is lies ; ^The Flower that once is blown for ever dies. LXVII. * Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd...tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. LXVIII. The Revelations of Devout and Learn'd Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn'd, Are... | |
 | Mottoes - 1896 - 1224 pages
...Death of Mr. Robert Level. St. 9. Strange — is it not? — that of the myriads who Before us passed ler" Jehiel Keeler Hoyt( too. g. OMAE KHAYYAM — Rubaiyat. St. 68. The world will turn when we are earth As though we had not... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Asia - 1897 - 348 pages
...hundred years before the Kutub Minar arose above this plain. TRAYELING WITH ELEPHANTS. ' Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the...tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. ' Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after... | |
 | John Lawson Stoddard - Asia - 1897 - 356 pages
...hundred years before the Kutub Minar arose above this plain. TRAYELING WITH ELEPHANTS. " Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the...tell us of the Road, Which to discover we must travel too. " Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Portals are alternate N'ight and Day, How Sultdn... | |
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Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road, ' "* Which to discover we must travel too. 
