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For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.

Omar Khayyam
Magic, Shadow, World
Omar Khayyam, Edward FitzGerald (1989). “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”, p.24, Branden Books
For in and out, above, about, below, 'Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show, Played in a Box whose Candle is the Sun, Round which we Phantom Figures come and go.