Thursday, March 12, 2009

Astronomer-Poet


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.

- From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám [1048-1123]