An angel attempting to alter the course of events by preventing time from unrolling the scroll on which the destiny of mankind is recorded. It illustrates two verses from edward fitzgerald's translation of the rubaiyat of omar khayyam:
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would but some wingéd angel ere too late
arrest the yet unfolded roll of fate,
and make the stern recorder otherwise
enregister, or quite obliterate!
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ah, love! could you and i with him conspire
to grasp this sorry scheme of things entire,
would not we shatter it to bits--and then
re-mould it nearer to the heart's desire! Object Type: painting. Date: 1882. Dimensions: 71.1 × 66 cm (27.9 × 25.9 in). Medium: oil on canvas. Collection: Private collection. Walter Crane - The Roll of Fate (1882)
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