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With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with my own Hand [labour'd it to] grow,
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd --
"I came like Water, and like Wind I go."

— Omar Khayyám [The Rubaiyat (1120) XXVIII

vertaald door Edward FitzGerald (1889)]