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The Master-Knot of Human Fate
By
Ellis Meredith
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
Omar Khayyám
Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1901
Copyright, 1901,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved.
UNIVERSITY PRESS JOHN WILSON
AND SON CAMBRIDGE, U. S. A.
Up from Earth's Centre through the Seventh Gate
I rose, and on the Throne of Saturn sate,
And many a Knot unravel'd by the Road;
But not the Master-knot of Human Fate.
Ah Love! could you and I with Him conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits—and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
Omar Khayyám