The Potter, having labor’d long and sore In many a Wheel, turns out at last no more Than a broken Pot, which he throws away, And then begins his work again as before.
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat (less common translation/interpretation)
c. 11th-12th Century
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