Now the New Year reviving old Desires, The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires, Where the White Hand Of Moses on the Bough Puts out, and Jesus from t… - Omar Khayyám

Now the New Year reviving old Desires,
The thoughtful Soul to Solitude retires.

Realise this: one day your soul
will depart from your body and you will
be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
because you don't know where you came from and
you don't know where you will be going.

Come, fill the Cup, in the fire of Spring
Your Winter-garment of Repentance fling:
The Bird of Time has but a little way
To flutter — and the Bird is on the Wing

قومی متفکر اند اندر ره دین

قومی به گمان فتاده در راه یقین

می ترسم از آنکه بانگ آید روزی

کای بی خبران ، راه نه آن است و نه این