 | 1906 - 594 pages
...injustice can be undone by present legislation or indeed by any present action. ' 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 all your tears wash out a word of it.' Let us suppose that some great... | |
 | 1897 - 986 pages
...memorials once scratched upon these time-honored stones cannot be erased. 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 all your tears wash out a word of it. ET MURRAY SMITH. From The Contemporary... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...into the Field, He knows about it all — HE knows — HE knows ! B LXXVI. 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 all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXVII. For let Philosopher and... | |
 | 1907 - 974 pages
...only hope. In no other condition are the words of the Rubaiyat more true : "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 all your tears wash out a Word of it." Dr. Balleray says : "The sins... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1885 - 980 pages
..."The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Movts on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." The recording angel, with unmoving eyes and lips, traces upon the leaves of a book ; two figures attend... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 438 pages
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed the seed :... | |
 | 1908 - 1066 pages
...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 all your tears wash out a word of it." But though God cannot annihilate the past and make it as though it had not been, he can out of our... | |
 | Moncure Daniel Conway - 1870 - 436 pages
...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a woid of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed... | |
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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 all your Tears wash out a Word of it. 
