could thou and I with Fate conspire to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire".  
This work claims that people are "but helpless pieces in the game He plays upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days" and describes how, "the worldly hope men set their Hearts upon turns ashes—or it prospers".  This collection discusses how "the idols I have loved so long have done my credit in Men's Eyes much wrong" and asks, "Ah, love! could thou and I with Fate conspire to grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire".  A more well known section of this work contains the lines, "A Book of Verses underneath the bough, a jug of wine, a loaf of bread—and Thou beside me singing in the wilderness".  For 10 points—name this collection, famously translated by Edmund Fitzgerald, a poetry collection by Omar Khayyam.
This work claims that people are "but helpless pieces in the game He plays upon this chequer-board of Nights and Days" and describes how, "the worldly hope men set their Hearts upon turns ashes—or it prospers".  
{Rubaiyat} of Omar Khayyam