"A book of Verses ...."

A book of Verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread – and Thou beside me singing in the wilderness – Oh, wilderness were Paradise enough!

Omar Khayyam

"Ah, make the most of what we may yet spend"

Ah, make the most of what we may yet spend,
Before we too into the Dust descend;
     Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie;
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and -- sans End!