’Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days
Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.
Omar Khayyám, “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám”
(English translation by Edward FitzGerald) |
A coot flies above the water on a rainy day in the West Bank city of Jenin. Photo: Alaa Badarneh/EPA.
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