The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

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XXV.

Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,
And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,
    A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries,
“Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There.”

XXVI.

Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss’d
Of the Two Worlds so wisely—they are thrust
    Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn
Are scatter’d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust.