Omar Khayyam (1) [Whinfield 26]

In these one,
    two,
       three days
      a lifetime has passed,
like cascading waters
    or a desert squall.
But regret for two days
    never comes to mind:
       the one that hasn’t arrived
            and the one that long since passed

– Omar Khayyam

Trans. by Juan Cole
from Whinfield 26

Revised.

For the life and thought of the Iranian humanist, Omar Khayyam, see the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry.