'The Moving Finger Writes, and having Writ..'

I've just come across a great blogger I want to share with you-Having Writ.

Well, firstly, her name caught my attention, because 'Having Writ' is part of my very favourite quote, one that my dad taught me when I was younger...

'The Moving Finger writes, and Having Writ, Moves On....'

'See?' my dad would say. 'Once you've said something, or written something to soemone, it's really hard to take it back, so think before you speak...'

I was about 8.

Really excited, I read on- and what do you know, Having Writ has the very same quote, right there in her profile!!!


'The moving finger writes, and having writ,
Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.'


Someone else loves The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam as much as I do! I'm sold!


So, just for 'Having Writ', these are some of my favourite verses of his:


'How long, how long, in infinite
Pursuit
Of This and That endeavour and
dispute?
Better be merry with the fruitful
Grape
Than sadden after none, or bitter,
fruit.'

'Indeed the Idols I have loved so
long
Have done my Credit in Men's Eye
much wrong:
Have drown'd my Honour in a
shallow Cup
And sold my Reputation for a Song.'

Ah Love! could thou and I with
Fate conspire
To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire,
Would not we shatter it to bits-
and then
Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's
Desire!'