[fabianfred]

I like trees...and am working on something too.....

"Awake! for morning in the bowl of night, has cast a stone, and set the stars to flight; and Lo the hunter of the East, has caught the Sultan's turret in a noose of light..."

"'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.."

...The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam-

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubaiyat_of_Omar_Khayyam

The Edward Fitzgerald 1st Edition is perhaps the most popular translation...

http://www.armory.com/~thrace/ev/siir/Omar_Khayyam.html