Like Wind I Go

Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great argument
About it and about: but evermore
Came out by the same Door as I went.

With them the Seed of Wisdom did I sow,
And with mine own hand wrought to make it grow;
And this was all the Harvest that I reap'd
'I came like Water, and like Wind I go'.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (1859)
Edward Fitzgerald (1809-1883)


We come with the Dust
And go with the Wind

Pastures of Plenty
Woody Guthrie (1912-1967)