...The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.' Let us suppose that some great aristocrat in the eighteenth century unjustly increased his fortune...

...The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line. Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. ET MURRAY SMITH. From The Contemporary Review. LIFK IN A FRENCH COMMUNE. In dealing with French customs...

..."The moving finger writes, and having writ Moves on : Nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a Word of it." Dr. Balleray says : "The sins of commission are the sins of the operative gynecologist; he does the...

...The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXVII. For let Philosopher and Doctor preach Of what they will, and what they will not — each Is...

..."The moving finger writes; and, having writ, Movts on ; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." The recording angel, with unmoving eyes and lips, traces upon the leaves of a book ; two figures attend...

...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed the seed :...

...The Moving Finger writes, and having writ. Moves on; nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." But though God cannot annihilate the past and make it as though it had not been, he can out of our...

...The moving Finger writes, and, having writ, Moves on : not all your piety and wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a woid of it. With Earth's first clay they did the last Man knead, And there of the last Harvest sowed...

...The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your piety nor wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a line, Nor all your tears wash out a word of it." Few of the Rubaiyat are so consecutive as these, most of them being in a great measure independent...

...The Moving Finger writes ; and, having writ, Moves on : nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it. LXXII. And that inverted Bowl they call the Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not...