Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.
醒来吧!清晨向夜的碗中投下石子,惊散满天星辰;看,东方的猎人已用光的套索,套住了苏丹的塔楼。
— Omar Khayyam · Rubáiyát, I · Edward FitzGerald, first edition (1859) —