A Moment's Halt—a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste—And lo! the Phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from—Oh, make haste!
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
A Moment's Halt—a momentary taste Of Being from the Well amid the Waste—And lo! the Phantom Caravan has reach'd The Nothing it set out from—Oh, make haste!
Poet, mathematician, astronomer
Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, Stanza XLVIII
c. 11th-12th century
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