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You ask what is this life so frail, so vain,

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You ask what is this life so frail, so vain, by Omar Khayyam

You ask what is this life so frail, so vain,
'Tis long to tell, yet will I make it plain;
'Tis but a breath blown from the vasty deeps,
And then blown back to those same deeps again!

Form: Quatrain

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