Rubaiyat

Lo! some we have loved, the loveliest and the best
That Time and Fate all of their Vintage prest,
  Have drunk their Cup a Round or two before,
And one by one crept silently to Rest.

And we, that now make merry in the Room
They left, and Summer dresses in new Bloom

a few lines from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam