 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 21 страница
...foolish Prophets forth ; their Words to Scorn Are scatter'd, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust. xxvi. Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk...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 About it... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868
...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... | |
 | Laurier House, Omar Khayyam - 1872 - 36 страница
...into Dust ! LXIII. 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. LXIV. Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who Before us pass'd the door of Darkness through Not... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873
...only hold fast by the skirts of the Prophet ; but believe me, and it is a Sufi tells it you : — ' One thing is certain, that life flies ; One thing is certain, and the rest lies : The flower that once has blown for ever dies.' I -will now return to the company ; mortal, farewell."... | |
 | 1876
...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 through. Not one... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1878
...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 and 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 all but stories,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 154 страница
...into Dust ! LXIII. \ O 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 forever dies. LXIV. \ / f Strange, is it not ? that of the myriads who r / / 1 Before us pass'd the... | |
 | 1881 - 271 страница
...deterred from that sweet balm by the Prophet's prohibition, or fears of Hell, or hopes of Paradise, "One thing is certain, and the rest is lies, The Flower that once has blown, for ever dies." None have come back from the bourne of that " undiscovered country" that lies behind the veil, "Strange,... | |
 | Edward Hayes Plumptre - 1881 - 271 страница
...deterred from that sweet balm by the Prophet's prohibition, or fears of Hell, or hopes of Paradise, "One thing is certain, and the rest is lies, The Flower that once has blown, for ever dies." None have come back from the bourne of that " undiscovered country" that lies behind the veil,, "Strange,... | |
 | Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman, Thomas Bucklin Wells - 1881
...not penetrate. " 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 forever dies." His political sentiments, if he had any, are not expressed in the verses in which he... | |
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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. 
