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Allah hath promised wine in Paradise,

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Allah hath promised wine in Paradise, by Omar Khayyam

Allah hath promised wine in Paradise,
Why then should wine on earth be deemed a vice?
An Arab in his cups cut Hamzah's girths,—
For that sole cause was drink declared a vice.

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