The Rubaiyat of Omar KhayyamOmar Khayyam (Ghiyāth al-Dīn ʿUmar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī)
poetry · Item 277
A reason to turn the page
Every drop we spill might already be slipping underground to quench some long-hidden anguish—whose eyes were eased?
Discovery 4 of 15And not a drop that from our Cups we throw For Earth to drink of, but may steal below To quench the fire of Anguish in some Eye There hidden--far beneath, and long ago.