The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, „. x Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. The Observatory - Page 4421901Full view - About this book
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...you down into the field, He knows about it all, — he knows, HE knows ! " The moving finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor shall your tears wash out a word of it." " For let philosopher and doctor... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1869 - 650 pages
...you down into the field, He knows about it all, — he knows, BE knows ! " The moving finger writes : and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor shall your tears wash out a word of it." " For let philosopher and doctor... | |
| 1908 - 940 pages
...commonwealth which they served. The words of Omar Khayyam fit this hour : "The moving finger writes, and having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor...cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a breath of it." GENERAL JAMES H. BAKER said : In Horace Austin, the sixth governor of the state of Minnesota,... | |
| 1876 - 1022 pages
...moves, and checks, and slaya, And one by one back in the closet lays." " The moving finger writes, and. having writ, Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall luro it back to cancel half a lino. Nor all your tears wash out 'a word of it. " And that inverted... | |
| 1878 - 916 pages
...Past." Or, to use the words of another poet, we shall realize this : — " The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on, nor all your piety nor wit Shall move it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." this situation, what... | |
| 1886 - 680 pages
...In the words of Omar Khayyam, the old Persian poet: — "The moving finger writes; and, having wril, Moves on : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it...back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash n,ta word of it." That is the pathos that hangs its mist of rainbow-colored tears over all the landscape... | |
| Freemasons. Massachusetts. Scottish rite - 1879 - 882 pages
...in Truro, Mass., June I7th, 1832. Died in Cambridgeport, May 26th, I885. "The moving finger writes; and having writ, Moves on ; nor 'all your piety nor wit Shall call it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL... | |
| 1919 - 960 pages
...—Portland 0,etonian COLD FEET! Passing Sham {London). HISTORY'S NEW PAGE "The iMoving Finper writes; and having writ, Moves on; nor all your Piety nor...back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash put a word of it." — John Bull (Lvndon). BEGGARED! "Sic transit gloria mundi." — Campana de Gracia... | |
| Edward Nicoll Dickerson - 1885 - 76 pages
...discovery or invention. This is the record, and so it will stand forever. " The moying finger writes ; and having writ, " Moves on : nor all your piety nor...cancel half a line, " Nor all your tears wash out one word of it." Forty years had fled away since as teacher and pupil we first met, and they seemed... | |
| Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...down into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows ! LXXI The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel lialf a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. And that inverted Bowl we call The... | |
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