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 - quatrain 60 - 11th century
Translated into English in 1859 by Edward FitzGerald.
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