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But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Checker-board of Nights and Days; Hither and thither moves, and checks, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays.

Omar Khayyam, Saʻdī (1900). “Persian Literature: Comprising the Sháh Námeh, the Rubáiyát, the Divan and the Gulistan”