The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

LXXIII.

With Earth’s first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And there of the Last Harvest sow’d the Seed:
    And the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.

LXXIV.

YESTERDAY This Day’s Madness did prepare;
TO-MORROW’s Silence, Triumph, or Despair:
    Drink! for you not know whence you came, nor why:
Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where.