Omar Khayyam — "For we are helpless pieces of the game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Night…"

For we are helpless pieces of the game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam Medieval · Poet, mathematician, astronomer

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Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (FitzGerald translation)

Date: c. 11th-12th century

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