"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it"

Who was the poet? What was the work?
Who was the translator? What was the original language?

Poet - Omar Khayyam
Work - Rubaiyat
Original language - Arabic
Translator - Edward Fitzgerald

Good job Jenny, I have a different language. It was translated into Arabic from Farsi.
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