They tell you not to drink, that otherwise you shall

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They tell you not to drink, that otherwise you shall by Omar Khayyam

They tell you not to drink, that otherwise you shall
become a prey to torment, and that in the day of
reckoning you will burn as fire. That may be, but the
day in which wine makes you joyous is more precious
than the goods of this world and those of the next.

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