 | Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald - 1900 - 162 pages
...Cup — 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.J LXIV. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1900 - 198 pages
...Were empty as the hollow of one's Hand. Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise I 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. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness... | |
 | Jonathan Brierley - 1900 - 330 pages
...of a man is One moment, in annihilation's waste, One moment, of the well of life to taste, and that One thing is certain and the rest is lies, The flower that once is blown for ever dies ; while further East and further back in time the Indian Bhagavad Gita is replying... | |
 | 1900 - 114 pages
...John Bennett (Copyright 1895, by HS Stone & Co.) OVER THE ROSE-LEAVES, UNDER THE ROSE (The Chap-Book) "One thing is certain and the rest is lies ; "The flower that has once blown forever dies." HY did you say you loved me then, If this must be the end ? Can so much... | |
 | William W. Hudson, Graeme Mercer Adam - 1901 - 652 pages
...neither hath he power in the day of death, and there is no discharge in that war. The Persian says : One thing is certain — this life flies, One thing...lies, The flower that once has blown forever dies. The Eternal Saki from that bowl has potir'd Millions of bubbles like us and will pour When you and... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1901 - 186 pages
...Khayyam LXIII i Oh threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise ! One thing at least is certain — TJiis life flies; One thing is certain and the rest is Lies ; The Flower that once has blown forever dies. LXIV j Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through,... | |
 | Harry Thurston Peck - 1901 - 428 pages
...with Dust. XXVI. Oh, oome 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. xxvu. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument... | |
 | 1901 - 660 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. XXVII. Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument... | |
 | Henry Frank - 1901 - 436 pages
...no future — is all life existent but here on this evanescent sphere ? Are we forced to conclude: " One thing is certain and the rest is lies: The flower that once has blown forever dies " ? One thing is sure: thought lives while lives the human mind. If the human mind be eternal, thought... | |
 | Vermont. State Board of Health - 1901 - 62 pages
...its subtle influence on the race is well indicated in the sixty-fourth verse of the Rubaiyat:— Ll Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who Before us passed the doors of darkness through, Not one returns to tell us of the Road Which to discover we must travel,... | |
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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. 
