 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 - Página 100por Edward Sell - 1880 - 269 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Arthur T. Poyser - 1908 - 334 páginas
...not be destroyed while she breeds strong sons to guard her treasures. CHAPTER II HISTORICAL SKETCH 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. OMAR KHAYYAM. THE protoplasm from which the present Tower grew was a rude Celtic fort on the river... | |
 | Samuel Marinus Zwemer, Arthur Judson Brown - 1908 - 372 páginas
...One of their own poets has summed it up in the lines which we might call their Psalm of Life : — " 'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days Where...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays." Every-day Religion. — Such a creed as we have briefly given in outline is matched by certain practical... | |
 | Samuel Marinus Zwemer, Arthur Judson Brown - 1908 - 370 páginas
...their own poets has summed it up in the lines which we might call their Psalm of Life : — " "Pis all a chequer-board of nights and days Where Destiny...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays." Every-day Religion. — Such a creed as we have briefly given in outline is matched by certain practical... | |
 | James Robertson - 1908 - 440 páginas
...find some religion, some reasonable explanation of the puzzle of existence. To them it seems : " "Pis all a chequer-board of nights and days, Where destiny...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays. For in and out, above, about, below, "Tis nothing but 'a magic shadow-show' ; Played in a box whose... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1909 - 172 páginas
...drink : And when the Angel with his darker Draught Draws up to Thee — take that, and do not shrink. V "Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where...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... | |
 | Robert Maynard Leonard - 1909 - 636 páginas
...not see : Some little Talk awhile of ME and THEE There seemed — and then no more of THEE and ME. 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where...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... | |
 | Eleanor Harris Rowland - 1909 - 226 páginas
...the game He plays Upon this checquer-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 or Noes, But here or there, as strikes the Player, goes, And He that... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - 1909 - 366 páginas
...the Game He plays Upon His 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 Here or There as strikes the Player goes; And He that... | |
 | William Walker Atkinson - 1910 - 228 páginas
...the Game He plays Upon His 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 Here and There, as strikes the Player, goes ; And He that... | |
 | William Macneile Dixon - 1911 - 792 páginas
...190 And when the Angel with his darker Draught Draws up to Thee — take that, and do not shrink. 49 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. 50 The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes ; And... | |
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