With Earth's first Clay They did the Last Man's knead,
And then of the Last Harvest sow'd the Seed:
Yea, the first Morning of Creation wrote
What the Last Dawn of Reckoning shall read.
This is the fifty-third quatrain of the FitzGerald's Rubaiyat.In previous quatrains, the theme was of how our lives are being controlled by powers that we know nothing of, how this world is just a game of chess for gods above. With this quatrain, this takes it further, the game of chess is actually rigged for the moves are already preordained. When the earth's first clay was molded, it was already decided what the Last Man would knead. The first Seed was actually destined to be sowed in the Last Harvest. And in the first morning of Creation, it was written how the Last Dawn of reckoning (of Judgement Day) will play out. Not only are we powerless, but also it does not really matter for it has all been decided before hand. Even the semblance of control or free choice in this cosmic game of chess is a fallacy for our "free choice" is already predestined.
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