“I sent my soul through the invisible,
some letter of that afterlife to spell;
and by and by my soul returned to me,
and answered, “I myself am Heav’n and Hell”” – Omar Khayyam
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"I sent my soul through the invisible,<br/>some letter of that afterlife to spell;<br/>and by and by my soul returned to me,<br/>and answered, "I myself am Heav’n and Hell"" – Omar Khayyam
"I sent my soul through the invisible,<br/>some letter of that afterlife to spell;<br/>and by and by my soul returned to me,<br/>and answered, "I myself am Heav’n and Hell"" – Omar Khayyam
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