With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow, And with my own hand labour'd it to grow: And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd-- "I came like Water, and like Wind I go."
我同他们播下智慧的种子,亲手辛勤培育;但收获到的一切,只有这一句:“我如水而来,像风而去。”
— Omar Khayyam · Rubáiyát, XXVIII · Edward FitzGerald, first edition (1859) —