Freedom From Fear Industries [FFFI]

Awake! For Morning in the Bowl of Night<br>Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight:<br>And lo! the Hunter of the East has caught<br>The Sultan's Turret in a Noose of Light.<br><br>Here with a Loaf of Bread beneath the Bough,<br>A Flask of Wine, a Book of Verse - and Thou<br>Beside me, singing in the Wilderness -<br>And wilderness is Paradise enow.<br><br>'Tis all a chequer-board of Nights and Days<br>Where Destiny with Men for pieces plays,<br>Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays,<br>And one by one back in the Closet lays.<br><br>-Rubaiyat, Omar Khayyam