"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."
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Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat, 71. Fitzgerald's translation. ("Thy piety" in first ed.).
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