“Well then, what shall I go through first,
what shall I save for last?”
IX. 14 (tr. Robert Fagles)
Odyssey (c. 725 BC)
“With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man knead,
And there of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
And the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.”
The Rubaiyat (1120)
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