"Think, in this battered Caravanserai, Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day, How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp Abode his destined Hour, and went his way."
— World

January 1, 1970

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Omar Khayyam, Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1120), Stanza 17. FitzGerald's translation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 911-17.