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Wine gives wings to those attacked by melancholy;

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Wine gives wings to those attacked by melancholy; by Omar Khayyam

Wine gives wings to those attacked by melancholy;
wine is a mole of beauty upon the cheek of intelligence,
we have not drunk of it during the Ramazan which
has passed, but now the eve of [the month of] Burak
hath arrived and we shall make amends.

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