Snow Upon The Desert

From Fitzgerald’s translation of the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám:

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon
Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon,
Like Snow upon the Desert’s dusty Face
Lighting a little Hour or two - is gone.



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