 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 pages
...with Dust. xxvi. Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk ; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. XX VJI. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...empty as the hollow of one's Hand. LXVI. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies : One thing is certain and the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once is blown for ever dies. LXVII. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...sects confute : The sovereign alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into gold transmute." " Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us passed the door of darkness throngh, Not one returns to tell us of the road, Which to discover we must travel too. " The revelations... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 70 pages
...— when crumbled into Dust ! LXIII. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies ; One thing is certain...the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. LXIV. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pages
...Persia, who died early in the twelth century, thus speaks of life : — " One thing is certain, that life flies ; One thing is certain, and the rest is lies ; The flower that once has blown for ever dies." Again — " There was a door to which I found no key, There was a veil past which I... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 pages
...splendid poetry. ' Oh ! throats of hell and hopes of paradise ! One thing »t least is certain — thii life flies. One thing is certain, and the rest is lies. The flower that once has blown for ever dies. " Strange, is it not? that, of the myriads who Before us passed the door of darkness... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...— when crumbled into Dust ! LXIII. \ O threats of Hell and hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain, — This Life flies,; One thing is certain...Lies ; The Flower that once has blown forever dies. LXIV. \ / f Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who r / / 1 Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1878 - 568 pages
...unravelling the " master knot of human fate." Oh, threats of hell and hopes of paradise, One thing at least is certain, this life flies ; One thing is certain...the rest is lies ; The flower that once has blown for ever dies. The revelations of devout and learn'd Who rose before us, and as prophets bnrn'd, Are... | |
 | 1881 - 978 pages
...which his eyes could not penetrate. " Oh threats of hell, and hopes of paradise ! One thing at least is certain — this life flies; One thing is certain,...lies : The flower that once has blown forever dies." His political sentiments, if he had any, are not expressed in the verses in which he has embodied his... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881 - 986 pages
...which his eyes could not penetrate. " Oh threats of hell, and hopes of paradise ! One thing at least is certain — this life flies; One thing is certain,...lies : The flower that once has blown forever dies." His political sentiments, if he had any, are not expressed in the verses in which he has embodied his... | |
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Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise! One thing at least is certain — This Life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies : The Flower that once has blown for ever dies. 
