What! Out of Oil, Nothing to invoke
A Powerful Something, born of Fire and Smoke!
An Unremitting Pleasure, if it goes;
An Everlasting Worriment, if broke.


Rubáiyát of a Motor Car (1906)


What! Out of Oil, Nothing to invoke A Powerful Something, born of Fire and Smoke! An Unremitting Pleasure, if it goes; An Everlasting Worriment, if...

What! Out of Oil, Nothing to invoke A Powerful Something, born of Fire and Smoke! An Unremitting Pleasure, if it goes; An Everlasting Worriment, if...

What! Out of Oil, Nothing to invoke A Powerful Something, born of Fire and Smoke! An Unremitting Pleasure, if it goes; An Everlasting Worriment, if...

What! Out of Oil, Nothing to invoke A Powerful Something, born of Fire and Smoke! An Unremitting Pleasure, if it goes; An Everlasting Worriment, if...