 Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.  The Faith of Islam - Page 100by Edward Sell - 1880 - 269 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 pages
...And when the Angel with his darker Draught Draws up to Thee — take that, and do not shrink. XLIX. 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. L. The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes; And He... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 pages
...up Into one bag."—HEYWOOD. " "Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with ^len for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays."—OMAR KHAYYAM. Mourn not for me, my friends; a few short years, And every piece that erowds... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays ; And one by one back in the Closet lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...of the game he plays Upon this checker-board of nights and days, Hither and thither moves and checks and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. " The ball no question makes of ayes and noes, But right or left, as strikes the player, goes ; And he that... | |
 | 1908 - 1066 pages
...the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and Thither moves and checks and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays." The answer to the questions of religion that the higher powers are like nature and find in nature their... | |
 | 1878 - 612 pages
...the game He plays Upon this checker-board of nights and days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. " The ball no question makes of ayes and noes, But right or left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that... | |
 | John Burley Waring - 1873 - 466 pages
...magic shadow show, Play'd in a box whose candle is the sun, Round which we phantom figures come and go. 'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days, Where...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays." Thus sad are Omar's strains ; but we, in place of mournful despondency, are full of energy, activity,... | |
 | 1876 - 1022 pages
...plays Upon this chequer-board of nights and days : Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slaya, And one by one back in the closet lays." " The moving finger writes, and. having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall luro it back to cancel half a lino. Nor all your tears... | |
 | 1878 - 832 pages
...effort. Men were but playthings in the hands of a pitiless, or at least a capricious destiny. " TIB all a chequer-board of nights and days, Where Destiny...slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. " The ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But right or left, as strikes the player goes ; And He that... | |
 | 1888 - 492 pages
...the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days ; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And He that... | |
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