Abu AlAla AlMaarriWhen men shake hands with time, time crushes Them like tumblers; little pieces of glass.
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When men shake hands with time, time crushes them like tumblers. Little pieces of glass. The idea of time as a tumbler is from the Book of Ecclesiastes. In the book, the writer describes life as the cycles of a wheel and how men and women live out their days. They rise and fall, day after day, year after year, until they are broken into little pieces which then become useless shards of glass.
Source: Birds Through A Ceiling Of Alabaster: Three Abbasid Poets
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