Ah Love! could thou and I with Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits -- and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
the rubaiyat of omar khayyam - quatrain 88 - 11th century
Translated into English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald.
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