Yes, I have found myself in close acquaintance with

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Yes, I have found myself in close acquaintance with by Omar Khayyam

Yes, I have found myself in close acquaintance with
wine, with drunkenness. But why does the world blame
me for it? Oh! would to God that all which is illegal
might produce drunkenness! For then never here below
should I have seen a shadow of sound reason.

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