Rubaiyat Edit Meaning

1.

A poem from by omar khayyam from the 11th century

The rubaiyat - omar khayyam - 11th century

It contain ~80 verses, each with wise counsel. One of my professors from school liked to quote the verse below to explian the arrow of time.

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 - omar khayyam - 11th century

See KK

2.

A quantrain (four line poem-type deal).

Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say;

Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?

And this first Summer month that brings the Rose

Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away.