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Sunday, April 17, 2011

The Moving Finger


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.
-- The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

(But the eraser on that great-looking pencil sure will help! -- ed.)