...the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, f mirth, Save the Cricket on the hearth, Or the Bellma Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Here or There, as strikes the Player, goes; And He that...

...character seems to be explained in them. Or, again, take that most perfect metaphor in Omar Khayyam i " 'Tis all a chequer-board of nights and days, Where...and slays, And one by one back in the closet lays." Could the fatalist's view of life be more forcibly expressed ? The essentially poetic figures of speech...

...the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, all in the faith and tradition of Oxford. I say boldl Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes, But here or there as strikes the Player goes ; And He that...

...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 Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on ; nor all your Piety nor wit 185 Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your tears...

...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 Here or There as strikes the Player goes ; And He that...

...eleventh-century Persian mathematician-turned-poet Omar Khayyam, as translated by Edward FitzGerald: Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. Later, we will take up the question of how this deterministic imagery squares with our sense of free...

...anything much these days.' "You'll bounce back. Life is just a game of chess' . I quoted Omar Khayyam: 'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays:' I didn't realised I had made a gaffe until she completed the quotation: Observing my distraught expression...

...Book of Verse — and Thou Beside me, singing in the Wilderness — And wilderness is Paradise enow. Tis all a chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny...mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.21 Omar Khayyam (1048-1131), whose Persian quatrains would he turned in translation into one of...

...Secretary-General of the United Nations. "Night Is Drawing Nigh," Markings (t9(>3}. Notebook entry, 1950. Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. OMAR KHAYYAM, (11-1 2th century) Persian astronomer, poet. The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, st. 49, trans,...

...darker Draught Draws up to Thee — take that, and do not shrink. i859 RUBAIYAT OF OMAR KHAYYAM XLIX. Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny...and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays. i.. The Ball no Question makes of Ayes and Noes, But Right or Left as strikes the Player goes; And...