From the
Rubaiyat of Omar Kayyam
The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
From the
Book of JonahA plant grew up over Jonah to provice shade for his head and save him from discomfort. ... the next day the plant withered.
And the LORD said: 'You cared about the plant, which you did not work for and which you did not grow, which appeared overnight and perished overnight. Should I not care about Nineveh, that great city [whose inhabitants] do not yet know their right hand from their left.
Incidentally, Nineveh is the name of the province (among 18) in present-day Iraq that was pivotal in passing the new Iraqi constitution.
