Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai Whose Doorways are alternate Night and Day, How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp Abode his Hour or two, and went his way.
想想这破旧的旅舍,门口交替着黑夜与白昼;多少苏丹带着显赫威仪,在此停留一两个时辰,便又离去。
— Omar Khayyam · Rubáiyát, XVI · Edward FitzGerald, first edition (1859) —