And that inverted Bowl we call The Sky, Whereunder crawling coop'd we live and die, Lift not your hands to It for help - for It As impotently rolls as you or I. Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909. PacificStock
Illustration by W. Heath Robinson to the poem The Song of the Dead, by Rudyard Kipling. From A Song of the English, published c.1914 PacificStock