Since the day when Venus and the moon appeared in

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Since the day when Venus and the moon appeared in by Omar Khayyam

Since the day when Venus and the moon appeared in
the sky, no one has seen anything here below preferable
to ruby wine. I am truly astonished at the wine-merchants,
for how can they buy anything superior to
that which they sell?

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