“We are no other than a moving row
Of Magic Shadow-shapes that come and go
Round with the Sun-illumined Lantern held
In Midnight by the Master of the Show;”

— Omar Khayyám

Source: The Rubaiyat (1120)

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Persian poet, philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer 1048–1131

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