Omar Khayyam on Predestination.

by Estéban Trujillo de Gutiérrez

LXXIII

“With Earth’s first clay they did the last man knead,

And then of the last harvest sow’d the seed:

Yea, the first morning of creation wrote

What the last dawn of reckoning shall read.”

–Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat.