 Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust, and under Dust to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare,...  New Englander and Yale Review - Page 3321888Full view - About this book
 | Omar Khayyam - 1859 - 48 pages
...Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend, ourselves to make a Couch — for whom ? XXIII. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before...Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End ! XXIV. Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after a TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...lean — Ah, lean upon it lightly ! for who knows From what once lovely Lip t springs unseen ! XXVI. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before...Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End ! XXVII. Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the couch of earth Descend, ourselves to make a couch — for whom 7 " Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before...Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and — sans end.' " I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Caesar bled ; That every... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...beneath the couch of earth Descend, ourselves to make a conch — for whom 1 " Ah, make the most Cjf what we yet may spend, Before we too into the dust...Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and — sans end.' ' I sometimes think that never blows so red The rose as where some buried Csesar bled ; That every... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1876 - 608 pages
...two before, And one by one crept silently to rest," we have the "drink and be merry " exhortation : " Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend ; Dust unto Dust, and under Dust, to lie, Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End ! ***** " Why,... | |
 | James Sully - 1877 - 500 pages
...is clearly a To-morrow ! — Why, To-morrow I may be Myself with Yesterday's sev'n thousand years. ' Ah ! make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend,' &c. 1 It may be added that when people seek to moderate in themselves or in others a too intense concern... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1878 - 568 pages
...which ourselves So late emerg'd from shall so soon expire. And this is his practical conclusion : — Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before...Sans wine, sans song, sans singer, and — sans end, Alike for those who for to-day prepare, And those that after some to-morrow stare, A muezzin from the... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom ? : XXIV.- v, IV i, make the most of what we yet may spend, /Before we...Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End! xxv. Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin from... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 142 pages
...rest. XXIII. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, XXIV. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before...Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End ! xxv. Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MORROW stare, A Muezzin... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...rest. XXIII. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, XXIV. Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before...Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and — sans End ! xxv. Alike for those who for TO-DAY prepare, And those that after some TO-MOEEOW stare, A Muezzin... | |
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