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'; document.write(aline); document.close(); } function RandomNumberGenerator() { var d = new Date(); this.seed = 2345678901 + (d.getSeconds() * 0xFFFFFF) + (d.getMinutes() * 0xFFFF); this.A = 48271; this.M = 2147483647; this.Q = this.M / this.A; this.R = this.M % this.A; this.oneOverM = 1.0 / this.M; this.next = NextRandomNumber; return this; } function random (n) { return Math.round(n * rand.next()); } function RUBAI() { var nmax=176; TODAY = new Array(4); RUBTXT = new Array(nmax); for(i=0; i< nmax; i++) { RUBTXT[i] = new Array(3); }; RUBTXT[ 0][0]=" Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night"; RUBTXT[ 0][1]=" Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:"; RUBTXT[ 0][2]=" And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught"; RUBTXT[ 0][3]=" The Sultan`s Turret in a Noose of Light."; RUBTXT[ 1][0]=" Dreaming when Dawn`s Left Hand was in the Sky"; RUBTXT[ 1][1]=" I heard a Voice within the Tavern cry,"; RUBTXT[ 1][2]=' "Awake, my Little ones, and fill the Cup'; RUBTXT[ 1][3]=' Before Life`s Liquor in its Cup be dry."'; RUBTXT[ 2][0]=" And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before"; RUBTXT[ 2][1]=' The Tavern shouted-"Open then the Door.'; RUBTXT[ 2][2]=' You know how little while we have to stay,'; RUBTXT[ 2][3]=' And, once departed, may return no more."'; RUBTXT[ 3][0]=" Now the New Year reviving old Desires,"; RUBTXT[ 3][1]=" The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,"; RUBTXT[ 3][2]=" Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough"; RUBTXT[ 3][3]=" Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires."; RUBTXT[ 4][0]=" Iram indeed is gone with all its Rose,"; RUBTXT[ 4][1]=" And Jamshyd`s Sev`n-ring`d Cup where no one knows;"; RUBTXT[ 4][2]=" But still the Vine her ancient Ruby yields,"; RUBTXT[ 4][3]=" And still a Garden by the Water blows."; RUBTXT[ 5][0]=" And David`s Lips are lock`t; but in divine"; RUBTXT[ 5][1]=' High piping Pelevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!'; RUBTXT[ 5][2]=' Red Wine!"-the Nightingale cries to the Rose'; RUBTXT[ 5][3]=" That yellow Cheek of hers to`incarnadine."; RUBTXT[ 6][0]=" Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring"; RUBTXT[ 6][1]=" The Winter Garment of Repentance fling:"; RUBTXT[ 6][2]=" The Bird of Time has but a little way"; RUBTXT[ 6][3]=" To fly-and Lo! the Bird is on the Wing."; RUBTXT[ 7][0]=" And look-a thousand Blossoms with the Day"; RUBTXT[ 7][1]=" Woke-and a thousand scatter`d into Clay:"; RUBTXT[ 7][2]=" And this first Summer Month that brings the Rose"; RUBTXT[ 7][3]=" Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away."; RUBTXT[ 8][0]=" But come with old Khayyam, and leave the Lot"; RUBTXT[ 8][1]=" Of Kaikobad and Kaikhosru forgot:"; RUBTXT[ 8][2]=" Let Rustum lay about him as he will,"; RUBTXT[ 8][3]=" Or Hatim Tai cry Supper-heed them not."; RUBTXT[ 9][0]=" With me along some Strip of Herbage strown"; RUBTXT[ 9][1]=" That just divides the desert from the sown,"; RUBTXT[ 9][2]=" Where name of Slave and Sultan scarce is known,"; RUBTXT[ 9][3]=" And pity Sultan Mahmud on his Throne."; RUBTXT[ 10][0]=" Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,"; RUBTXT[ 10][1]=" A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse-and Thou"; RUBTXT[ 10][2]=" Beside me singing in the Wilderness-"; RUBTXT[ 10][3]=" And Wilderness is Paradise enow."; RUBTXT[ 11][0]=' "How sweet is mortal Sovranty!"-think some:'; RUBTXT[ 11][1]=' Others-"How blest the Paradise to come!"'; RUBTXT[ 11][2]=" Ah, take the Cash in hand and waive the Rest;"; RUBTXT[ 11][3]=" Oh, the brave Music of a distant Drum!"; RUBTXT[ 12][0]=' Look to the Rose that blows about us-"Lo,'; RUBTXT[ 12][1]=' Laughing," she says, "into the World I blow:'; RUBTXT[ 12][2]=" At once the silken Tassel of my Purse"; RUBTXT[ 12][3]=' Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."'; RUBTXT[ 13][0]=" The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon"; RUBTXT[ 13][1]=" Turns Ashes-or it prospers; and anon,"; RUBTXT[ 13][2]=" Like Snow upon the Desert`s dusty Face"; RUBTXT[ 13][3]=" Lighting a little Hour or two-is gone."; RUBTXT[ 14][0]=" And those who husbanded the Golden Grain,"; RUBTXT[ 14][1]=" And those who flung it to the Winds like Rain,"; RUBTXT[ 14][2]=" Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn`d"; RUBTXT[ 14][3]=" As, buried once, Men want dug up again."; RUBTXT[ 15][0]=" Think, in this batter`d Caravanserai"; RUBTXT[ 15][1]=" Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day,"; RUBTXT[ 15][2]=" How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp"; RUBTXT[ 15][3]=" Abode his Hour or two, and went his way."; RUBTXT[ 16][0]=" They say the Lion and the Lizard keep"; RUBTXT[ 16][1]=" The Courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep:"; RUBTXT[ 16][2]=" And Bahram, that great Hunter-the Wild Ass"; RUBTXT[ 16][3]=" Stamps o`er his Head, and he lies fast asleep."; RUBTXT[ 17][0]=" I sometimes think that never blows so red"; RUBTXT[ 17][1]=" The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;"; RUBTXT[ 17][2]=" That every Hyacinth the Garden wears"; RUBTXT[ 17][3]=" Dropt in its Lap from some once lovely Head."; RUBTXT[ 18][0]=" And this delightful Herb whose tender Green"; RUBTXT[ 18][1]=" Fledges the River`s Lip on which we lean-"; RUBTXT[ 18][2]=" Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows"; RUBTXT[ 18][3]=" From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!"; RUBTXT[ 19][0]=" Ah! my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears"; RUBTXT[ 19][1]=" TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears-"; RUBTXT[ 19][2]=" To-morrow?-Why, To-morrow I may be"; RUBTXT[ 19][3]=" Myself with Yesterday`s Sev`n Thousand Years."; RUBTXT[ 20][0]=" Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and the best"; RUBTXT[ 20][1]=" That Time and Fate of all their Vintage prest,"; RUBTXT[ 20][2]=" Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,"; RUBTXT[ 20][3]=" And one by one crept silently to Rest."; RUBTXT[ 21][0]=" And we, that now make merry in the Room"; RUBTXT[ 21][1]=" They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom,"; RUBTXT[ 21][2]=" Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth"; RUBTXT[ 21][3]=" Descend, ourselves to make a Couch-for whom?"; RUBTXT[ 22][0]=" Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,"; RUBTXT[ 22][1]=" Before we too into the Dust Descend;"; RUBTXT[ 22][2]=" Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie,"; RUBTXT[ 22][3]=" Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer and-sans End!"; RUBTXT[ 23][0]=" Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,"; RUBTXT[ 23][1]=" And those that after a TO-MORROW stare,"; RUBTXT[ 23][2]=" A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries"; RUBTXT[ 23][3]=' "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There."'; RUBTXT[ 24][0]=" Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss`d"; RUBTXT[ 24][1]=" Of the Two Worlds so learnedly, are thrust"; RUBTXT[ 24][2]=" Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn"; RUBTXT[ 24][3]=" Are scatter`d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust."; RUBTXT[ 25][0]=" Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise"; RUBTXT[ 25][1]=" To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies;"; RUBTXT[ 25][2]=" One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies;"; RUBTXT[ 25][3]=" The Flower that once has blown for ever dies."; RUBTXT[ 26][0]=" Myself when young did eagerly frequent"; RUBTXT[ 26][1]=" Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument"; RUBTXT[ 26][2]=" About it and about: but evermore"; RUBTXT[ 26][3]=" Came out by the same Door as in I went."; RUBTXT[ 27][0]=" With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,"; RUBTXT[ 27][1]=" And with my own hand labour`d it to grow:"; RUBTXT[ 27][2]=" And this was all the Harvest that I reap`d-"; RUBTXT[ 27][3]=' "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."'; RUBTXT[ 28][0]=" Into this Universe, and why not knowing,"; RUBTXT[ 28][1]=" Nor whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing:"; RUBTXT[ 28][2]=" And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,"; RUBTXT[ 28][3]=" I know not whither, willy-nilly blowing."; RUBTXT[ 29][0]=" What, without asking, hither hurried whence?"; RUBTXT[ 29][1]=" And, without asking, whither hurried hence!"; RUBTXT[ 29][2]=" Another and another Cup to drown"; RUBTXT[ 29][3]=" The Memory of this Impertinence!"; RUBTXT[ 30][0]=" Up from Earth`s Centre through the seventh Gate"; RUBTXT[ 30][1]=" I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,"; RUBTXT[ 30][2]=" And many Knots unravel`d by the Road;"; RUBTXT[ 30][3]=" But not the Knot of Human Death and Fate."; RUBTXT[ 31][0]=" There was a Door to which I found no Key:"; RUBTXT[ 31][1]=" There was a Veil past which I could not see:"; RUBTXT[ 31][2]=" Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE"; RUBTXT[ 31][3]=" There seemed-and then no more of THEE and ME."; RUBTXT[ 32][0]=" Then to the rolling Heav`n itself I cried,"; RUBTXT[ 32][1]=' Asking, "What Lamp had Destiny to guide'; RUBTXT[ 32][2]=' Her little Children stumbling in the Dark?"'; RUBTXT[ 32][3]=' And-"A blind understanding!" Heav`n replied.'; RUBTXT[ 33][0]=" Then to this earthen Bowl did I adjourn"; RUBTXT[ 33][1]=" My Lip the secret Well of Life to learn:"; RUBTXT[ 33][2]=' And Lip to Lip it murmur`d-"While you live,'; RUBTXT[ 33][3]=' Drink!-for once dead you never shall return."'; RUBTXT[ 34][0]=" I think the Vessel, that with fugitive"; RUBTXT[ 34][1]=" Articulation answer`d, once did live,"; RUBTXT[ 34][2]=" And merry-make; and the cold Lip I kiss`d"; RUBTXT[ 34][3]=" How many Kisses might it take-and give."; RUBTXT[ 35][0]=" For in the Market-place, one Dusk of Day,"; RUBTXT[ 35][1]=" I watch`d the Potter thumping his wet Clay:"; RUBTXT[ 35][2]=" And with its all obliterated Tongue"; RUBTXT[ 35][3]=' It murmur`d-"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!"'; RUBTXT[ 36][0]=" Ah, fill the Cup:-what boots it to repeat"; RUBTXT[ 36][1]=" How Time is slipping underneath our Feet:"; RUBTXT[ 36][2]=" Unborn TO-MORROW and dead YESTERDAY,"; RUBTXT[ 36][3]=" Why fret about them if TO-DAY be sweet!"; RUBTXT[ 37][0]=" One Moment in Annihilation`s Waste,"; RUBTXT[ 37][1]=" One moment, of the Well of Life to taste-"; RUBTXT[ 37][2]=" The Stars are setting, and the Caravan"; RUBTXT[ 37][3]=" Starts for the dawn of Nothing-Oh, make haste!"; RUBTXT[ 38][0]=" How long, how long, in infinite Pursuit"; RUBTXT[ 38][1]=" Of This and That endeavour and dispute?"; RUBTXT[ 38][2]=" Better be merry with the fruitful Grape"; RUBTXT[ 38][3]=" Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit."; RUBTXT[ 39][0]=" You know, my Friends, how long since in my House"; RUBTXT[ 39][1]=" For a new Marriage I did make Carouse:"; RUBTXT[ 39][2]=" Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,"; RUBTXT[ 39][3]=" And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse."; RUBTXT[ 40][0]=' For "IS" and "IS-NOT" though with Rule and Line,'; RUBTXT[ 40][1]=' And, "UP-AND-DOWN" without, I could define,'; RUBTXT[ 40][2]=" I yet in all I only cared to know,"; RUBTXT[ 40][3]=" Was never deep in anything but-Wine."; RUBTXT[ 41][0]=" And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,"; RUBTXT[ 41][1]=" Came stealing through the Dusk an Angel Shape,"; RUBTXT[ 41][2]=" Bearing a vessel on his Shoulder; and"; RUBTXT[ 41][3]=" He bid me taste of it; and `twas-the Grape!"; RUBTXT[ 42][0]=" The Grape that can with Logic absolute"; RUBTXT[ 42][1]=" The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:"; RUBTXT[ 42][2]=" The subtle Alchemist that in a Trice"; RUBTXT[ 42][3]=" Life`s leaden Metal into Gold transmute."; RUBTXT[ 43][0]=" The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord,"; RUBTXT[ 43][1]=" That all the misbelieving and black Horde"; RUBTXT[ 43][2]=" Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul"; RUBTXT[ 43][3]=" Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword."; RUBTXT[ 44][0]=" But leave the Wise to wrangle, and with me"; RUBTXT[ 44][1]=" The Quarrel of the Universe let be:"; RUBTXT[ 44][2]=" And, in some corner of the Hubbub coucht,"; RUBTXT[ 44][3]=" Make Game of that which makes as much of Thee."; RUBTXT[ 45][0]=" For in and out, above, about, below,"; RUBTXT[ 45][1]=" `Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show,"; RUBTXT[ 45][2]=" Play`d in a Box whose Candle is the Sun,"; RUBTXT[ 45][3]=" Round which we Phantom Figures come and go."; RUBTXT[ 46][0]=" And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press,"; RUBTXT[ 46][1]=" End in the Nothing all Things end in-Yes-"; RUBTXT[ 46][2]=" Then fancy while Thou art, Thou art but what"; RUBTXT[ 46][3]=" Thou shalt be-Nothing-Thou shalt not be less."; RUBTXT[ 47][0]=" While the Rose blows along the River Brink,"; RUBTXT[ 47][1]=" With old Khayyam the Ruby Vintage drink:"; RUBTXT[ 47][2]=" And when the Angel with his darker Draught"; RUBTXT[ 47][3]=" Draws up to thee-take that, and do not shrink."; RUBTXT[ 48][0]=" `Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days"; RUBTXT[ 48][1]=" Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:"; RUBTXT[ 48][2]=" Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,"; RUBTXT[ 48][3]=" And one by one back in the Closet lays."; RUBTXT[ 49][0]=" The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes,"; RUBTXT[ 49][1]=" But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes;"; RUBTXT[ 49][2]=" And He that toss`d Thee down into the Field,"; RUBTXT[ 49][3]=" He knows about it all-HE knows-HE knows!"; RUBTXT[ 50][0]=" The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,"; RUBTXT[ 50][1]=" Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit"; RUBTXT[ 50][2]=" Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,"; RUBTXT[ 50][3]=" Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."; RUBTXT[ 51][0]=" And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky,"; RUBTXT[ 51][1]=" Whereunder crawling coop`t we live and die,"; RUBTXT[ 51][2]=" Lift not thy hands to IT for help-for It"; RUBTXT[ 51][3]=" Rolls impotently on as Thou or I."; RUBTXT[ 52][0]=" With Earth`s first Clay They did the Last Man`s knead,"; RUBTXT[ 52][1]=" And then of the Last Harvest sow`d the Seed:"; RUBTXT[ 52][2]=" Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote"; RUBTXT[ 52][3]=" What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read."; RUBTXT[ 53][0]=" I tell Thee this-When, starting from the Goal,"; RUBTXT[ 53][1]=" Over the shoulders of the flaming Foal"; RUBTXT[ 53][2]=" Of Heav`n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,"; RUBTXT[ 53][3]=" In my predestin`d Plot of Dust and Soul"; RUBTXT[ 54][0]=" The Vine had struck a Fibre; which about"; RUBTXT[ 54][1]=" It clings my Being-let the Sufi flout;"; RUBTXT[ 54][2]=" Of my Base Metal may be filed a Key,"; RUBTXT[ 54][3]=" That shall unlock the Door he howls without."; RUBTXT[ 55][0]=" And this I know: whether the one True Light,"; RUBTXT[ 55][1]=" Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,"; RUBTXT[ 55][2]=" One Glimpse of It within the Tavern caught"; RUBTXT[ 55][3]=" Better than in the Temple lost outright."; RUBTXT[ 56][0]=" Oh Thou who didst with Pitfall and with Gin"; RUBTXT[ 56][1]=" Beset the Road I was to wander in,"; RUBTXT[ 56][2]=" Thou wilt not with Predestination round"; RUBTXT[ 56][3]=" Enmesh me, and impute my Fall to Sin?"; RUBTXT[ 57][0]=" Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,"; RUBTXT[ 57][1]=" And who with Eden didst devise the Snake;"; RUBTXT[ 57][2]=" For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man"; RUBTXT[ 57][3]=" Is blacken`d, Man`s Forgiveness give-and take!"; RUBTXT[ 58][0]=" Listen again. One Evening at the Close"; RUBTXT[ 58][1]=" Of Ramazan, ere the better Moon arose,"; RUBTXT[ 58][2]=" In that old Potter`s Shop I stood alone"; RUBTXT[ 58][3]=" With the clay Population round in Rows."; RUBTXT[ 59][0]=" And strange to tell, among that Earthen Lot"; RUBTXT[ 59][1]=" Some could articulate, while others not:"; RUBTXT[ 59][2]=" And suddenly one more impatient cried-"; RUBTXT[ 59][3]=' "Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"'; RUBTXT[ 60][0]=' Then said another-"Surely not in vain'; RUBTXT[ 60][1]=" My substance from the common Earth was ta`en,"; RUBTXT[ 60][2]=" That He who subtly wrought me into Shape"; RUBTXT[ 60][3]=' Should stamp me back to common Earth again."'; RUBTXT[ 61][0]=' Another said-"Why, ne`er a peevish Boy'; RUBTXT[ 61][1]=" Would break the Bowl from which he drank in Joy;"; RUBTXT[ 61][2]=" Shall He that made the Vessel in pure Love"; RUBTXT[ 61][3]=' And Fansy, in an after Rage destroy!"'; RUBTXT[ 62][0]=" None answer`d this; but after Silence spake"; RUBTXT[ 62][1]=" A Vessel of a more ungainly Make:"; RUBTXT[ 62][2]=' "They sneer at me for leaning all awry;'; RUBTXT[ 62][3]=' What? did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"'; RUBTXT[ 63][0]=' Said one-"Folks of a surly Tapster tell,'; RUBTXT[ 63][1]=" And daub his Visage with the Smoke of Hell;"; RUBTXT[ 63][2]=" They talk of some strict Testing of us-Pish!"; RUBTXT[ 63][3]=' He`s a Good Fellow, and `twill all be well."'; RUBTXT[ 64][0]=" Then said another with a long-drawn Sigh,"; RUBTXT[ 64][1]=' "My Clay with long oblivion is gone dry:'; RUBTXT[ 64][2]=" But, fill me with the old familiar Juice,"; RUBTXT[ 64][3]=' Methinks I might recover by-and-bye!"'; RUBTXT[ 65][0]=" So, while the Vessels one by one were speaking,"; RUBTXT[ 65][1]=" One spied the little Crescent all were seeking:"; RUBTXT[ 65][2]=' And then they jogg`d each other, "Brother! Brother!'; RUBTXT[ 65][3]=' Hark to the Porter`s Shoulder-knot a-creaking!"'; RUBTXT[ 66][0]=" Ah, with the Grape my fading Life provide,"; RUBTXT[ 66][1]=" And wash my Body whence the life has died,"; RUBTXT[ 66][2]=" And in a Windingsheet of Vineleaf wrapt,"; RUBTXT[ 66][3]=" So bury me by some sweet Gardenside."; RUBTXT[ 67][0]=" That ev`n my buried Ashes such a Snare"; RUBTXT[ 67][1]=" Of Perfume shall fling up into the Air,"; RUBTXT[ 67][2]=" As not a True Believer passing by"; RUBTXT[ 67][3]=" But shall be overtaken unaware."; RUBTXT[ 68][0]=" Indeed, the Idols I have loved so long"; RUBTXT[ 68][1]=" Have done my Credit in Men`s Eye much wrong:"; RUBTXT[ 68][2]=" Have drown`d my Honour in a shallow Cup,"; RUBTXT[ 68][3]=" And sold my Reputation for a Song."; RUBTXT[ 69][0]=" Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before"; RUBTXT[ 69][1]=" I swore-but was I sober when I swore?"; RUBTXT[ 69][2]=" And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand"; RUBTXT[ 69][3]=" My thread-bare Penitence a-pieces tore."; RUBTXT[ 70][0]=" And much as Wine has play`d the Infidel,"; RUBTXT[ 70][1]=" And robb`d me of my Robe of Honour-well,"; RUBTXT[ 70][2]=" I often wonder what the Vintners buy"; RUBTXT[ 70][3]=" One half so precious as the Goods they sell."; RUBTXT[ 71][0]=" Alas, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!"; RUBTXT[ 71][1]=" That Youth`s sweet-scented Manuscript should close!"; RUBTXT[ 71][2]=" The Nightingale that in the Branches sang,"; RUBTXT[ 71][3]=" Ah, whence, and whither flown again, who knows!"; RUBTXT[ 72][0]=" Ah, Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire"; RUBTXT[ 72][1]=" To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,"; RUBTXT[ 72][2]=" Would not we shatter it to bits-and then"; RUBTXT[ 72][3]=" Re-mould it nearer to the Heart`s Desire!"; RUBTXT[ 73][0]=" Ah, Moon of my Delight who know`st no wane,"; RUBTXT[ 73][1]=" The Moon of Heav`n is rising once again:"; RUBTXT[ 73][2]=" How oft hereafter rising shall she look"; RUBTXT[ 73][3]=" Through this same Garden after me-in vain!"; RUBTXT[ 74][0]=" And when Thyself with shining Foot shall pass"; RUBTXT[ 74][1]=" Among the Guests Star-scatter`d on The Grass,"; RUBTXT[ 74][2]=" And in Thy joyous Errand reach the Spot"; RUBTXT[ 74][3]=" Where I made one-turn down an empty Glass."; RUBTXT[ 75][0]=" WAKE! For the Sun, who scatter`d into flight"; RUBTXT[ 75][1]=" The Stars before him from the Field of Night,"; RUBTXT[ 75][2]=" Drives Night along with them from Heav`n, and strikes"; RUBTXT[ 75][3]=" The Sultan`s Turret with a Shaft of Light."; RUBTXT[ 76][0]=" Before the phantom of False morning died,"; RUBTXT[ 76][1]=" Methought a Voice within the Tavern cried,"; RUBTXT[ 76][2]=' "When all the Temple is prepared within,'; RUBTXT[ 76][3]=' "Why nods the drowsy Worshiper outside?"'; RUBTXT[ 77][0]=" And, as the Cock crew, those who stood before"; RUBTXT[ 77][1]=' The Tavern shouted-"Open then the Door!'; RUBTXT[ 77][2]=' "You know how little while we have to stay,'; RUBTXT[ 77][3]=' And, once departed, may return no more."'; RUBTXT[ 78][0]=" Now the New Year reviving old Desires,"; RUBTXT[ 78][1]=" The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires,"; RUBTXT[ 78][2]=" Where the WHITE HAND OF MOSES on the Bough"; RUBTXT[ 78][3]=" Puts out, and Jesus from the Ground suspires."; RUBTXT[ 79][0]=" Iram indeed is gone with all his Rose,"; RUBTXT[ 79][1]=" And Jamshyd`s Sev`n-ring`d Cup where no one knows;"; RUBTXT[ 79][2]=" But still a Ruby kindles in the Vine,"; RUBTXT[ 79][3]=" And many a Garden by the Water blows."; RUBTXT[ 80][0]=" And David`s lips are lockt; but in divine"; RUBTXT[ 80][1]=' High-piping Pehlevi, with "Wine! Wine! Wine!'; RUBTXT[ 80][2]=' "Red Wine!"-the Nightingale cries to the Rose'; RUBTXT[ 80][3]=" That sallow cheek of hers to` incarnadine."; RUBTXT[ 81][0]=" Come, fill the Cup, and in the fire of Spring"; RUBTXT[ 81][1]=" Your Winter garment of Repentance fling:"; RUBTXT[ 81][2]=" The Bird of Time has but a little way"; RUBTXT[ 81][3]=" To flutter-and the Bird is on the Wing."; RUBTXT[ 82][0]=" Whether at Naishapur or Babylon,"; RUBTXT[ 82][1]=" Whether the Cup with sweet or bitter run,"; RUBTXT[ 82][2]=" The Wine of Life keeps oozing drop by drop,"; RUBTXT[ 82][3]=" The Leaves of Life keep falling one by one."; RUBTXT[ 83][0]=" Each Morn a thousand Roses brings, you say:"; RUBTXT[ 83][1]=" Yes, but where leaves the Rose of Yesterday?"; RUBTXT[ 83][2]=" And this first Summer month that brings the Rose"; RUBTXT[ 83][3]=" Shall take Jamshyd and Kaikobad away."; RUBTXT[ 84][0]=" Well, let it take them! What have we to do"; RUBTXT[ 84][1]=" With Kaikobad the Great, or Kaikhosru?"; RUBTXT[ 84][2]=" Let Zal and Rustum bluster as they will,"; RUBTXT[ 84][3]=" Or Hatim call to Supper-heed not you."; RUBTXT[ 85][0]=" With me along the strip of Herbage strown"; RUBTXT[ 85][1]=" That just divides the desert from the sown,"; RUBTXT[ 85][2]=" Where name of Slave and Sultan is forgot-"; RUBTXT[ 85][3]=" And Peace to Mahmud on his golden Throne!"; RUBTXT[ 86][0]=" A Book of Verses underneath the Bough,"; RUBTXT[ 86][1]=" A Jug of Wine, a Loaf of Bread-and Thou"; RUBTXT[ 86][2]=" Beside me singing in the Wilderness-"; RUBTXT[ 86][3]=" Oh, Wilderness were Paradise enow!"; RUBTXT[ 87][0]=" Some for the Glories of This World; and some"; RUBTXT[ 87][1]=" Sigh for the Prophet`s Paradise to come;"; RUBTXT[ 87][2]=" Ah, take the Cash, and let the Credit go,"; RUBTXT[ 87][3]=" Nor heed the rumble of a distant Drum!"; RUBTXT[ 88][0]=' Look to the blowing Rose about us-"Lo,'; RUBTXT[ 88][1]=' Laughing," she says, "into the world I blow,'; RUBTXT[ 88][2]=" At once the silken tassel of my Purse"; RUBTXT[ 88][3]=' Tear, and its Treasure on the Garden throw."'; RUBTXT[ 89][0]=" And those who husbanded the Golden grain,"; RUBTXT[ 89][1]=" And those who flung it to the winds like Rain,"; RUBTXT[ 89][2]=" Alike to no such aureate Earth are turn`d"; RUBTXT[ 89][3]=" As, buried once, Men want dug up again."; RUBTXT[ 90][0]=" The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon"; RUBTXT[ 90][1]=" Turns Ashes-or it prospers; and anon,"; RUBTXT[ 90][2]=" Like Snow upon the Desert`s dusty Face,"; RUBTXT[ 90][3]=" Lighting a little hour or two-is gone."; RUBTXT[ 91][0]=" Think, in this batter`d Caravanserai"; RUBTXT[ 91][1]=" Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,"; RUBTXT[ 91][2]=" How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp"; RUBTXT[ 91][3]=" Abode his destined Hour, and went his way."; RUBTXT[ 92][0]=" They say the Lion and the Lizard keep"; RUBTXT[ 92][1]=" The courts where Jamshyd gloried and drank deep:"; RUBTXT[ 92][2]=" And Bahram, that great Hunter-the Wild Ass"; RUBTXT[ 92][3]=" Stamps o`er his Head, but cannot break his Sleep."; RUBTXT[ 93][0]=" I sometimes think that never blows so red"; RUBTXT[ 93][1]=" The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled;"; RUBTXT[ 93][2]=" That every Hyacinth the Garden wears"; RUBTXT[ 93][3]=" Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head."; RUBTXT[ 94][0]=" And this reviving Herb whose tender Green"; RUBTXT[ 94][1]=" Fledges the River-Lip on which we lean-"; RUBTXT[ 94][2]=" Ah, lean upon it lightly! for who knows"; RUBTXT[ 94][3]=" From what once lovely Lip it springs unseen!"; RUBTXT[ 95][0]=" Ah, my Beloved, fill the Cup that clears"; RUBTXT[ 95][1]=" TO-DAY of past Regrets and future Fears:"; RUBTXT[ 95][2]=" To-morrow-Why, To-morrow I may be"; RUBTXT[ 95][3]=" Myself with Yesterday`s Sev`n thousand Years."; RUBTXT[ 96][0]=" For some we loved, the loveliest and the best"; RUBTXT[ 96][1]=" That from his Vintage rolling Time hath prest,"; RUBTXT[ 96][2]=" Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,"; RUBTXT[ 96][3]=" And one by one crept silently to rest."; RUBTXT[ 97][0]=" And we, that now make merry in the Room"; RUBTXT[ 97][1]=" They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom,"; RUBTXT[ 97][2]=" Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth"; RUBTXT[ 97][3]=" Descend-ourselves to make a Couch-for whom?"; RUBTXT[ 98][0]=" Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend,"; RUBTXT[ 98][1]=" Before we too into the Dust descend;"; RUBTXT[ 98][2]=" Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie,"; RUBTXT[ 98][3]=" Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and-sans End!"; RUBTXT[ 99][0]=" Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare,"; RUBTXT[ 99][1]=" And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,"; RUBTXT[ 99][2]=" A Muezzin from the Tower of Darkness cries,"; RUBTXT[ 99][3]=' "Fools! your Reward is neither Here nor There."'; RUBTXT[100][0]=" Why, all the Saints and Sages who discuss`d"; RUBTXT[100][1]=" Of the Two Worlds so wisely-they are thrust"; RUBTXT[100][2]=" Like foolish Prophets forth; their Words to Scorn"; RUBTXT[100][3]=" Are scatter`d, and their Mouths are stopt with Dust."; RUBTXT[101][0]=" Myself when young did eagerly frequent"; RUBTXT[101][1]=" Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument"; RUBTXT[101][2]=" About it and about: but evermore"; RUBTXT[101][3]=" Came out by the same door where in I went."; RUBTXT[102][0]=" With them the seed of Wisdom did I sow,"; RUBTXT[102][1]=" And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;"; RUBTXT[102][2]=" And this was all the Harvest that I reap`d-"; RUBTXT[102][3]=' "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."'; RUBTXT[103][0]=" Into this Universe, and Why not knowing"; RUBTXT[103][1]=" Nor Whence, like Water willy-nilly flowing;"; RUBTXT[103][2]=" And out of it, as Wind along the Waste,"; RUBTXT[103][3]=" I know not Whither, willy-nilly blowing."; RUBTXT[104][0]=" What, without asking, hither hurried Whence?"; RUBTXT[104][1]=" And, without asking, Whither hurried hence!"; RUBTXT[104][2]=" Oh, many a Cup of this forbidden Wine"; RUBTXT[104][3]=" Must drown the memory of that insolence!"; RUBTXT[105][0]=" Up from Earth`s Center through the Seventh Gate"; RUBTXT[105][1]=" I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,"; RUBTXT[105][2]=" And many a Knot unravel`d by the Road;"; RUBTXT[105][3]=" But not the Master-knot of Human Fate."; RUBTXT[106][0]=" There was the Door to which I found no Key;"; RUBTXT[106][1]=" There was the Veil through which I might not see:"; RUBTXT[106][2]=" Some little talk awhile of ME and THEE"; RUBTXT[106][3]=" There was-and then no more of THEE and ME."; RUBTXT[107][0]=" Earth could not answer; nor the Seas that mourn"; RUBTXT[107][1]=" In flowing Purple, of their Lord Forlorn;"; RUBTXT[107][2]=" Nor rolling Heaven, with all his Signs reveal`d"; RUBTXT[107][3]=" And hidden by the sleeve of Night and Morn."; RUBTXT[108][0]=" Then of the THEE IN ME who works behind"; RUBTXT[108][1]=" The Veil, I lifted up my hands to find"; RUBTXT[108][2]=" A lamp amid the Darkness; and I heard,"; RUBTXT[108][3]=' As from Without-"THE ME WITHIN THEE BLIND!"'; RUBTXT[109][0]=" Then to the Lip of this poor earthen Urn"; RUBTXT[109][1]=" I lean`d, the Secret of my Life to learn:"; RUBTXT[109][2]=' And Lip to Lip it murmur`d-"While you live,'; RUBTXT[109][3]=' "Drink!-for, once dead, you never shall return."'; RUBTXT[110][0]=" I think the Vessel, that with fugitive"; RUBTXT[110][1]=" Articulation answer`d, once did live,"; RUBTXT[110][2]=" And drink; and Ah! the passive Lip I kiss`d,"; RUBTXT[110][3]=" How many Kisses might it take-and give!"; RUBTXT[111][0]=" For I remember stopping by the way"; RUBTXT[111][1]=" To watch a Potter thumping his wet Clay:"; RUBTXT[111][2]=" And with its all-obliterated Tongue"; RUBTXT[111][3]=' It murmur`d-"Gently, Brother, gently, pray!"'; RUBTXT[112][0]=" And has not such a Story from of Old"; RUBTXT[112][1]=" Down Man`s successive generations roll`d"; RUBTXT[112][2]=" Of such a clod of saturated Earth"; RUBTXT[112][3]=" Cast by the Maker into Human mold?"; RUBTXT[113][0]=" And not a drop that from our Cups we throw"; RUBTXT[113][1]=" For Earth to drink of, but may steal below"; RUBTXT[113][2]=" To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye"; RUBTXT[113][3]=" There hidden-far beneath, and long ago."; RUBTXT[114][0]=" As then the Tulip for her morning sup"; RUBTXT[114][1]=" Of Heav`nly Vintage from the soil looks up,"; RUBTXT[114][2]=" Do you devoutly do the like, till Heav`n"; RUBTXT[114][3]=" To Earth invert you-like an empty Cup."; RUBTXT[115][0]=" Perplext no more with Human or Divine,"; RUBTXT[115][1]=" To-morrow`s tangle to the winds resign,"; RUBTXT[115][2]=" And lose your fingers in the tresses of"; RUBTXT[115][3]=" The Cypress-slender Minister of Wine."; RUBTXT[116][0]=" And if the Wine you drink, the Lip you press,"; RUBTXT[116][1]=" End in what All begins and ends in-Yes;"; RUBTXT[116][2]=" Think then you are TO-DAY what YESTERDAY"; RUBTXT[116][3]=" You were-TO-MORROW you shall not be less."; RUBTXT[117][0]=" So when that Angel of the darker Drink"; RUBTXT[117][1]=" At last shall find you by the river-brink,"; RUBTXT[117][2]=" And, offering his Cup, invite your Soul"; RUBTXT[117][3]=" Forth to your Lips to quaff-you shall not shrink."; RUBTXT[118][0]=" Why, if the Soul can fling the Dust aside,"; RUBTXT[118][1]=" And naked on the Air of Heaven ride,"; RUBTXT[118][2]=" Were`t not a Shame-were`t not a Shame for him"; RUBTXT[118][3]=" In this clay carcass crippled to abide?"; RUBTXT[119][0]=" `Tis but a Tent where takes his one day`s rest"; RUBTXT[119][1]=" A Sultan to the realm of Death addrest;"; RUBTXT[119][2]=" The Sultan rises, and the dark Ferrash"; RUBTXT[119][3]=" Strikes, and prepares it for another Guest."; RUBTXT[120][0]=" And fear not lest Existence closing your"; RUBTXT[120][1]=" Account, and mine, should know the like no more;"; RUBTXT[120][2]=" The Eternal Saki from that Bowl has pour`d"; RUBTXT[120][3]=" Millions of Bubbles like us, and will pour."; RUBTXT[121][0]=" When You and I behind the Veil are past,"; RUBTXT[121][1]=" Oh, but the long, long while the World shall last,"; RUBTXT[121][2]=" Which of our Coming and Departure heeds"; RUBTXT[121][3]=" As the Sea`s self should heed a pebble-cast."; RUBTXT[122][0]=" A Moment`s Halt-a momentary taste"; RUBTXT[122][1]=" Of BEING from the Well amid the Waste-"; RUBTXT[122][2]=" And Lo!-the phantom Caravan has reach`d"; RUBTXT[122][3]=" The NOTHING it set out from-Oh, make haste!"; RUBTXT[123][0]=" Would you that spangle of Existence spend"; RUBTXT[123][1]=" About THE SECRET-quick about it, Friend!"; RUBTXT[123][2]=" A Hair perhaps divides the False from True-"; RUBTXT[123][3]=" And upon what, prithee, may life depend?"; RUBTXT[124][0]=" A Hair perhaps divides the False and True;"; RUBTXT[124][1]=" Yes; and a single Alif were the clue-"; RUBTXT[124][2]=" Could you but find it-to the Treasure-house,"; RUBTXT[124][3]=" And peradventure to THE MASTER too;"; RUBTXT[125][0]=" Whose secret Presence through Creation`s veins"; RUBTXT[125][1]=" Running Quicksilver-like eludes your pains;"; RUBTXT[125][2]=" Taking all shapes from Mah to Mahi and"; RUBTXT[125][3]=" They change and perish all-but He remains;"; RUBTXT[126][0]=" A moment guessed-then back behind the Fold"; RUBTXT[126][1]=" Immerst of Darkness round the Drama roll`d"; RUBTXT[126][2]=" Which, for the Pastime of Eternity,"; RUBTXT[126][3]=" He doth Himself contrive, enact, behold."; RUBTXT[127][0]=" But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor"; RUBTXT[127][1]=" Of Earth, and up to Heav`n`s unopening Door,"; RUBTXT[127][2]=" You gaze TO-DAY, while You are You-how then"; RUBTXT[127][3]=" TO-MORROW, when You shall be You no more?"; RUBTXT[128][0]=" Waste not your Hour, nor in the vain pursuit"; RUBTXT[128][1]=" Of This and That endeavor and dispute;"; RUBTXT[128][2]=" Better be jocund with the fruitful Grape"; RUBTXT[128][3]=" Than sadden after none, or bitter, Fruit."; RUBTXT[129][0]=" You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse"; RUBTXT[129][1]=" I made a Second Marriage in my house;"; RUBTXT[129][2]=" Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed,"; RUBTXT[129][3]=" And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse."; RUBTXT[130][0]=' For "Is" and "Is-not" though with Rule and Line'; RUBTXT[130][1]=' And "UP-AND-DOWN" by Logic I define,'; RUBTXT[130][2]=" Of all that one should care to fathom, I"; RUBTXT[130][3]=" was never deep in anything but-Wine."; RUBTXT[131][0]=" Ah, by my Computations, People say,"; RUBTXT[131][1]=" Reduce the Year to better reckoning?-Nay,"; RUBTXT[131][2]=" `Twas only striking from the Calendar"; RUBTXT[131][3]=" Unborn To-morrow and dead Yesterday."; RUBTXT[132][0]=" And lately, by the Tavern Door agape,"; RUBTXT[132][1]=" Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape"; RUBTXT[132][2]=" Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and"; RUBTXT[132][3]=" He bid me taste of it; and `twas-the Grape!"; RUBTXT[133][0]=" The Grape that can with Logic absolute"; RUBTXT[133][1]=" The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute:"; RUBTXT[133][2]=" The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice"; RUBTXT[133][3]=" Life`s leaden metal into Gold transmute;"; RUBTXT[134][0]=" The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord,"; RUBTXT[134][1]=" That all the misbelieving and black Horde"; RUBTXT[134][2]=" Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul"; RUBTXT[134][3]=" Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword."; RUBTXT[135][0]=" Why, be this Juice the growth of God, who dare"; RUBTXT[135][1]=" Blaspheme the twisted tendril as a Snare?"; RUBTXT[135][2]=" A Blessing, we should use it, should we not?"; RUBTXT[135][3]=" And if a Curse-why, then, Who set it there?"; RUBTXT[136][0]=" I must abjure the Balm of Life, I must,"; RUBTXT[136][1]=" Scared by some After-reckoning ta`en on trust,"; RUBTXT[136][2]=" Or lured with Hope of some Diviner Drink,"; RUBTXT[136][3]=" To fill the Cup-when crumbled into Dust!"; RUBTXT[137][0]=" Of threats of Hell and Hopes of Paradise!"; RUBTXT[137][1]=" One thing at least is certain-This Life flies;"; RUBTXT[137][2]=" One thing is certain and the rest is Lies;"; RUBTXT[137][3]=" The Flower that once has blown for ever dies."; RUBTXT[138][0]=" Strange, is it not? that of the myriads who"; RUBTXT[138][1]=" Before us pass`d the door of Darkness through,"; RUBTXT[138][2]=" Not one returns to tell us of the Road,"; RUBTXT[138][3]=" Which to discover we must travel too."; RUBTXT[139][0]=" The Revelations of Devout and Learn`d"; RUBTXT[139][1]=" Who rose before us, and as Prophets burn`d,"; RUBTXT[139][2]=" Are all but Stories, which, awoke from Sleep"; RUBTXT[139][3]=" They told their comrades, and to Sleep return`d."; RUBTXT[140][0]=" I sent my Soul through the Invisible,"; RUBTXT[140][1]=" Some letter of that After-life to spell:"; RUBTXT[140][2]=" And by and by my Soul return`d to me,"; RUBTXT[140][3]=' And answer`d "I Myself am Heav`n and Hell:"'; RUBTXT[141][0]=" Heav`n but the Vision of fulfill`d Desire,"; RUBTXT[141][1]=" And Hell the Shadow from a Soul on fire,"; RUBTXT[141][2]=" Cast on the Darkness into which Ourselves,"; RUBTXT[141][3]=" So late emerged from, shall so soon expire."; RUBTXT[142][0]=" We are no other than a moving row"; RUBTXT[142][1]=" Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go"; RUBTXT[142][2]=" Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held"; RUBTXT[142][3]=" In Midnight by the Master of the Show;"; RUBTXT[143][0]=" But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays"; RUBTXT[143][1]=" Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days;"; RUBTXT[143][2]=" Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays,"; RUBTXT[143][3]=" And one by one back in the Closet lays."; RUBTXT[144][0]=" The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,"; RUBTXT[144][1]=" But Here or There as strikes the Player goes;"; RUBTXT[144][2]=" And He that toss`d you down into the Field,"; RUBTXT[144][3]=" He knows about it all-HE knows-HE knows!"; RUBTXT[145][0]=" The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,"; RUBTXT[145][1]=" Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit"; RUBTXT[145][2]=" Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,"; RUBTXT[145][3]=" Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."; RUBTXT[146][0]=" And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky,"; RUBTXT[146][1]=" Whereunder crawling coop`d we live and die,"; RUBTXT[146][2]=" Lift not your hands to It for help-for It"; RUBTXT[146][3]=" As impotently moves as you or I."; RUBTXT[147][0]=" With Earth`s first Clay They did the Last Man knead,"; RUBTXT[147][1]=" And there of the Last Harvest sow`d the Seed:"; RUBTXT[147][2]=" And the first Morning of Creation wrote"; RUBTXT[147][3]=" What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read."; RUBTXT[148][0]=" YESTERDAY This Day`s Madness did prepare;"; RUBTXT[148][1]=" TO-MORROW`s Silence, Triumph, or Despair:"; RUBTXT[148][2]=" Drink! for you not know whence you came, nor why:"; RUBTXT[148][3]=" Drink! for you know not why you go, nor where."; RUBTXT[149][0]=" I tell you this-When, started from the Goal,"; RUBTXT[149][1]=" Over the flaming shoulders of the Foal"; RUBTXT[149][2]=" Of Heav`n Parwin and Mushtari they flung,"; RUBTXT[149][3]=" In my predestined Plot of Dust and Soul."; RUBTXT[150][0]=" The Vine had struck a fiber: which about"; RUBTXT[150][1]=" It clings my Being-let the Dervish flout;"; RUBTXT[150][2]=" Of my Base metal may be filed a Key"; RUBTXT[150][3]=" That shall unlock the Door he howls without."; RUBTXT[151][0]=" And this I know: whether the one True Light"; RUBTXT[151][1]=" Kindle to Love, or Wrath consume me quite,"; RUBTXT[151][2]=" One Flash of It within the Tavern caught"; RUBTXT[151][3]=" Better than in the Temple lost outright."; RUBTXT[152][0]=" What! out of senseless Nothing to provoke"; RUBTXT[152][1]=" A conscious Something to resent the yoke"; RUBTXT[152][2]=" Of unpermitted Pleasure, under pain"; RUBTXT[152][3]=" Of Everlasting Penalties, if broke!"; RUBTXT[153][0]=" What! from his helpless Creature be repaid"; RUBTXT[153][1]=" Pure Gold for what he lent him dross-allay`d-"; RUBTXT[153][2]=" Sue for a Debt he never did contract,"; RUBTXT[153][3]=" And cannot answer-Oh the sorry trade!"; RUBTXT[154][0]=" Oh Thou, who didst with pitfall and with gin"; RUBTXT[154][1]=" Beset the Road I was to wander in,"; RUBTXT[154][2]=" Thou wilt not with Predestined Evil round"; RUBTXT[154][3]=" Enmesh, and then impute my Fall to Sin!"; RUBTXT[155][0]=" Oh Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make,"; RUBTXT[155][1]=" And ev`n with Paradise devise the Snake:"; RUBTXT[155][2]=" For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man"; RUBTXT[155][3]=" Is blacken`d-Man`s forgiveness give-and take!"; RUBTXT[156][0]=" As under cover of departing Day"; RUBTXT[156][1]=" Slunk hunger-stricken Ramazan away,"; RUBTXT[156][2]=" Once more within the Potter`s house alone"; RUBTXT[156][3]=" I stood, surrounded by the Shapes of Clay."; RUBTXT[157][0]=" Shapes of all Sorts and Sizes, great and small,"; RUBTXT[157][1]=" That stood along the floor and by the wall;"; RUBTXT[157][2]=" And some loquacious Vessels were; and some"; RUBTXT[157][3]=" Listen`d perhaps, but never talk`d at all."; RUBTXT[158][0]=' Said one among them-"Surely not in vain'; RUBTXT[158][1]=" My substance of the common Earth was ta`en"; RUBTXT[158][2]=" And to this Figure molded, to be broke,"; RUBTXT[158][3]=' Or trampled back to shapeless Earth again."'; RUBTXT[159][0]=' Then said a Second-"Ne`er a peevish Boy'; RUBTXT[159][1]=" Would break the Bowl from which he drank in joy;"; RUBTXT[159][2]=" And He that with his hand the Vessel made"; RUBTXT[159][3]=' Will surely not in after Wrath destroy."'; RUBTXT[160][0]=" After a momentary silence spake"; RUBTXT[160][1]=" Some Vessel of a more ungainly Make;"; RUBTXT[160][2]=' "They sneer at me for leaning all awry:'; RUBTXT[160][3]=' What! did the Hand then of the Potter shake?"'; RUBTXT[161][0]=" Whereat some one of the loquacious Lot-"; RUBTXT[161][1]=" I think a Sufi pipkin-waxing hot-"; RUBTXT[161][2]=' "All this of Pot and Potter-Tell me then,'; RUBTXT[161][3]=' Who is the Potter, pray, and who the Pot?"'; RUBTXT[162][0]=' "Why," said another, "Some there are who tell'; RUBTXT[162][1]=" Of one who threatens he will toss to Hell"; RUBTXT[162][2]=" The luckless Pots he marr`d in making-Pish!"; RUBTXT[162][3]=' He`s a Good Fellow, and `twill all be well."'; RUBTXT[163][0]=' "Well," murmured one, "Let whoso make or buy,'; RUBTXT[163][1]=" My Clay with long Oblivion is gone dry:"; RUBTXT[163][2]=" But fill me with the old familiar Juice,"; RUBTXT[163][3]=' Methinks I might recover by and by."'; RUBTXT[164][0]=" So while the Vessels one by one were speaking,"; RUBTXT[164][1]=" The little Moon look`d in that all were seeking:"; RUBTXT[164][2]=' And then they jogg`d each other, "Brother! Brother!'; RUBTXT[164][3]=' Now for the Porter`s shoulders` knot a-creaking!"'; RUBTXT[165][0]=" Ah, with the Grape my fading life provide,"; RUBTXT[165][1]=" And wash the Body whence the Life has died,"; RUBTXT[165][2]=" And lay me, shrouded in the living Leaf,"; RUBTXT[165][3]=" By some not unfrequented Garden-side."; RUBTXT[166][0]=" That ev`n buried Ashes such a snare"; RUBTXT[166][1]=" Of Vintage shall fling up into the Air"; RUBTXT[166][2]=" As not a True-believer passing by"; RUBTXT[166][3]=" But shall be overtaken unaware."; RUBTXT[167][0]=" Indeed the Idols I have loved so long"; RUBTXT[167][1]=" Have done my credit in this World much wrong:"; RUBTXT[167][2]=" Have drown`d my Glory in a shallow Cup,"; RUBTXT[167][3]=" And sold my reputation for a Song."; RUBTXT[168][0]=" Indeed, indeed, Repentance oft before"; RUBTXT[168][1]=" I swore-but was I sober when I swore?"; RUBTXT[168][2]=" And then and then came Spring, and Rose-in-hand"; RUBTXT[168][3]=" My thread-bare Penitence apieces tore."; RUBTXT[169][0]=" And much as Wine has play`d the Infidel,"; RUBTXT[169][1]=" And robb`d me of my Robe of Honor-Well,"; RUBTXT[169][2]=" I wonder often what the Vintners buy"; RUBTXT[169][3]=" One half so precious as the stuff they sell."; RUBTXT[170][0]=" Yet Ah, that Spring should vanish with the Rose!"; RUBTXT[170][1]=" That Youth`s sweet-scented manuscript should close!"; RUBTXT[170][2]=" The Nightingale that in the branches sang,"; RUBTXT[170][3]=" Ah whence, and whither flown again, who knows!"; RUBTXT[171][0]=" Would but the Desert of the Fountain yield"; RUBTXT[171][1]=" One glimpse-if dimly, yet indeed, reveal`d,"; RUBTXT[171][2]=" To which the fainting Traveler might spring,"; RUBTXT[171][3]=" As springs the trampled herbage of the field!"; RUBTXT[172][0]=" Would but some winged Angel ere too late"; RUBTXT[172][1]=" Arrest the yet unfolded Roll of Fate,"; RUBTXT[172][2]=" And make the stern Recorder otherwise"; RUBTXT[172][3]=" Enregister, or quite obliterate!"; RUBTXT[173][0]=" Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire"; RUBTXT[173][1]=" To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,"; RUBTXT[173][2]=" Would not we shatter it to bits-and then"; RUBTXT[173][3]=" Re-mold it nearer to the Heart`s Desire!"; RUBTXT[174][0]=" Yon rising Moon that looks for us again-"; RUBTXT[174][1]=" How oft hereafter will she wax and wane;"; RUBTXT[174][2]=" How oft hereafter rising look for us"; RUBTXT[174][3]=" Through this same Garden-and for one in vain!"; RUBTXT[175][0]=" And when like her, oh Saki, you shall pass"; RUBTXT[175][1]=" Among the Guests Star-scatter`d on the Grass,"; RUBTXT[175][2]=" And in your joyous errand reach the spot"; RUBTXT[175][3]=" Where I made One-turn down an empty Glass!"; var nmax1=nmax-1; r1=random(nmax1); TODAY[0]=RUBTXT[r1][0]; TODAY[1]=RUBTXT[r1][1]; TODAY[2]=RUBTXT[r1][2]; TODAY[3]=RUBTXT[r1][3]; } function load(){ loaded=true; } //-->

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