 | William Makepeace Thackeray - English literature - 1895 - 788 pages
...toil, the time, and the money buried in this grave, and calls to mind Omar Khayyam's melancholy words : And we, that now make merry in the room They left,...dresses in new bloom, Ourselves, must we beneath the coach of earth Descend, ourselves to make a couch — for whom ? Alike for those who for to-day prepare,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1868 - 56 pages
...has prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. XXIII. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, X£. XXIV. I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Ceesar bled ; That... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...Time has prest, Have drunk their cup a round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. " And we that now make merry in the room They left,...earth Descend, ourselves to make a couch — for whom 7 " Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the dust descend : Dust into dust,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1869 - 650 pages
...Time has prest, Have drunk their cup a round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. " And we that now make merry in the room They left,...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 descend... | |
 | College student newspapers and periodicals - 1900 - 342 pages
...weavers of a glory that once was have folded their tents, like the Arabs, and as silently stolen away. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom ; Ourselves must be beneath the Couch of Earth; Descend — ourselves to make a couch — for whom? And so soon! "Too... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1878 - 164 pages
...has prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. XXIII. And we, that now make merry in the Room They left,...Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom ? : XXIV.- v, IV i, make the most of what we yet may spend, /Before we too into the Dust descend ;... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - Persian poetry - 1879 - 144 pages
...hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to 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 we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dnst,... | |
 | Omar Khayyam - 1879 - 146 pages
...hath prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to 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 we too into the Dust descend ; Dust into Dust,... | |
 | Ainsworth Rand Spofford, Rufus Edmonds Shapley - Wit and humor - 1884 - 472 pages
...Time has prest, Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before. And one by one crept silently to rest. « And we that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer drews in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourBelvea to make a Couch... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...hath prest, Have drunk tlieir Cup a Round or two before, And one by one crept silently to rest. XXIII And we that now make merry in the Room They left,...Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom? XXIV Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, Before we too into the Dust descend; Dust into Dust,... | |
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And we, that now make merry in the Room They left, and Summer dresses in new bloom, Ourselves must we beneath the Couch of Earth Descend — ourselves to make a Couch — for whom? 
