Omar Khayyám: Fate will not bend to humour man’s caprice, So vaunt not human powers but hold your peace, Here must we stay, weighed do

Fate will not bend to humour man’s caprice, So vaunt not human powers but hold y — Omar Khayyám

Fate will not bend to humour man’s caprice, So vaunt not human powers but hold your peace, Here must we stay, weighed down with grief for this, That we were born so late, so soon decease.

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