The Bodleian quatrains and their correspondances ...

ID	Verse	Translator	Language	Related
HER1898/2-11	To-day being the season of my youth, I desire wine, for thence comes my happiness; reproach me not, even though acrid it is pleasant; it is acrid in that it represents my life.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-8 GUY1935-52 NIC1867-24 THOM1906-61 WHIN1883-28	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-12	Thou hast no power to-day over the morrow, and anxiety about the morrow brings thee only melancholy; waste not thou this moment if thy heart be not mad, for the value of the remainder of this life is not manifest.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-20 CAD1899-9 Chr1927-62 GUY1935-13 NIC1867-26 ROSEN1928-14 THOM1906-63 WHIN1883-30	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-13	Now that there is a possibility of happiness for the world, every living heart has yearnings towards the desert, upon every bough is the appearance of Moses' hand, in every breeze is the exhalation of Jesus' breath.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-150 CAD1899-40 FITZ1859-4 THOM1906-162 WHIN1883-116	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-14	For him for whom the fruit ot the branch of truth has not grown, the reason is that he is not firm in the Road. Every one has feebly shaken with his hand the bough of truth. Know that to-day is like yesterday, and that to-morrow is like the First Day of Creation.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-41 GUY1935-26 ROSEN1928-64 THOM1906-869 WHIN1883-115	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-15	Already on the Day of Creation beyond the heavens my soul searched for the Tablet and Pen and for heaven and hell; at last the Teacher said to me with His enlightened judgment, "Tablet and Pen, and heaven and hell, are within thyself."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-31 CAD1899-42 GUY1935-22 ROSEN1928-24 SCHACK1878-335 THOM1906-161 WHIN1883-114	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-16	Arise and give me wine-what time is this for words? for to-night thy little mouth fills all my needs; give me wine, rose-coloured as thy cheeks, for this penitence of mine is as full of tangles as thy curls.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-51a THOM1906-160 WHIN1883-113	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-18	How long shall I throw bricks upon the surface of the sea? I am disgusted with the idol-worshippers of the pagoda. Khayyám! who can say that he will be a denizen of hell, who ever went to hell, and who ever came from heaven?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-45 Chr1927-64 GUY1935-73 ROSEN1928-29 THOM1906-158 WHIN1883-111	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-19	The elements of a cup which he has put together, their breaking up a drinker cannot approve, all these heads and delicate feet—with his finger-tips, for love of whom did he make them?—for hate of whom did he break them?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-67 CAD1899-12 Chr1927-77 FITZ1859-62 GUY1935-12 NIC1867-38 ROSEN1928-10 THOM1906-81 WHIN1883-42	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-20	Like water in a great river and like wind in the desert, another day passes out of the period of my existence; grief has never lingered in my mind—concerning two days, the day that has not yet come and the day that is past.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-30 CAD1899-46 Chr1927-37 GUY1935-37 THOM1906-653	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-21	Seeing that my coming was not for me the Day of Creation, and that my undesired departure hence is a purpose fixed for me, get up and gird well thy loins, O nimble Cup-bearer, for I will wash down the misery of the world in wine.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-37 Chr1927-32 COW1858-8 FITZ1859-30 GUY1935-41 THOM1906-157 WHIN1883-110	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-22	Khayyám, who stitched at the tents of wisdom, fell into the furnace of sorrow and was suddenly burnt; the shears of doom cut the tent-rope of his existence, and the broker of hope sold him for a mere song.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-62 CAD1899-24 Chr1927-67 GUY1935-31 NIC1867-81 ROSEN1928-39 THOM1906-132 WHIN1883-83	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-23	Khayyám, why mourn thus for thy sins? from grieving thus what advantage, more or less, dost thou gain? Mercy was never for him who sins not, mercy is granted for sins—why then grieve?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-46 CAD1899-13 GUY1935-36 NIC1867-43 ROSEN1928-38 SCHACK1878-94 THOM1906-87 WHIN1883-46	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-24	In cell, and college, and monastery, and synagogue are those who fear hell and those who seek after heaven; he who has knowledge of the secrets of God sows none of such seed in his heart of hearts.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-108 CAD1899-15 Chr1927-29 GUY1935-56 NIC1867-46 ROSEN1928-45 SCHACK1878-133 THOM1906-91 WHIN1883-49	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-25	If in the season of spring a being, houri-shaped, gives me on the green bank of a field a goblet full of wine, (though to everyone this saying may seem uncouth) a dog is better than I am if thenceforth I pronounce the name of heaven.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-25 Chr1927-39 GUY1935-43 ROSEN1928-47 THOM1906-648	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-26	Know this—that from thy soul thou shalt be separated, thou shalt pass behind the curtain of the secrets of God. Be happy—thou knowest not whence thou hast come: drink wine—thou knowest not whither thou shalt go.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-382 CAD1899-26 Chr1927-15 GUY1935-60 NIC1867-85 SCHACK1878-207 THOM1906-136 WHIN1883-87	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-27	I fell asleep, and wisdom said to me: — "Never from sleep has the rose of happiness blossomed for anyone; why do a thing that is the mate of death? Drink wine, for thou must sleep for ages."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-140 BOD1881-369 CAD1899-16 Chr1927-59 GUY1935-67 NIC1867-48 ROSEN1928-43 SCHACK1878-130 THOM1906-93 WHIN1883-51	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-28	My heart said to me:— "I have a longing for inspired knowledge; teach me if thou art able." I said the Alif. My heart said :— "Say no more. If One is in the house, one letter is enough."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-51b THOM1906-156 WHIN1883-109	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-29	No one can pass behind the curtain that veils the secret, the mind of no one is cognizant of what is there; save in the heart of earth we have no haven. Drink wine, for to such talk there is no end.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-80 CAD1899-14 Chr1927-61 GUY1935-23 NIC1867-44 ROSEN1928-42 SCHACK1878-110 THOM1906-89 WHIN1883-47	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-30	The mystery must be kept hidden from all the ignoble, and the secrets must be withheld from fools. Consider thine actions towards thy fellow men: our hopes must be concealed from all mankind.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-17 GUY1935-17 NIC1867-51 ROSEN1928-54 THOM1906-96 WHIN1883-54	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-31	From the beginning was written what shall be; unhaltingly the Pen writes, and is heedless of good and bad; on the First Day He appointed everything that must be — our grief and our efforts are vain.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-104 CAD1899-11 Chr1927-91 FITZ1859-53 GUY1935-63 NIC1867-31 ROSEN1928-53 THOM1906-69 WHIN1883-35	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-32	In the spring, on the bank of the river and on the edge of the field, with a few companions and a playmate houri-shaped, bring forth the cup, for those that drink the morning draught are independent of the mosque and free from the synagogue.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-47 THOM1906-332	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-33	The heavenly vault is the girdle of my weary body, Jihun is a water-course worn by my filtered tears, hell is a spark from my useless worries. Paradise is a moment of time when I am tranquil.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-123 BOD1881-71 CAD1899-28 Chr1927-58 GUY1935-66 NIC1867-90 ROSEN1928-59 SCHACK1878-269 THOM1906-140 WHIN1883-92	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-34	They say that the garden of Eden is pleasant with houris: I say that the juice of the grape is pleasant. Hold fast this cash and let that credit go, for the noise of drums, brother, is pleasant from afar.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-48 FITZ1859-12 GUY1935-42 ROSEN1928-62 THOM1906-155 WHIN1883-108	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-35	Drink wine, for thou wilt sleep long beneath the clay without an intimate, a friend, a comrade, or wife; take care that thou tell'st not this hidden secret to anyone: — The tulips that are withered will never bloom again.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-23 CAD1899-39 Chr1927-54 GUY1935-57 THOM1906-11 WHIN1883-107	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-36	Drink wine, for this is life eternal, this is thy gain firom the days of thy youth; a season of roses, and wine, and drunken companions — be happy for a moment for this is life!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-50 THOM1906-153 WHIN1883-106	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-37	Give me wine which is a salve for my wounded heart, it is the boon companion of those who have trafficked in love; to my mind the dregs of a single draught are better than the vault of heaven which is the hollow of the world's skull.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-51c THOM1906-665	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-38	I drink wine, and my enemies from left and right say: — "Do not drink wine, for it is the foe of religion." When I knew that wine was the foe of religion, I said: —"By Allah! let me drink the foe's blood, for that is lawful."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-31 Chr1927-2 GUY1935-58 NIC1867-93 THOM1906-143 WHIN1883-95	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-39	Wine is a melted ruby and the cup is the mine thereof; the cup is a body and its wine is the soul thereof; that crystal cup that is bubbling over with wine is a tear in which the heart's blood is hidden.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-49 ROSEN1928-65 THOM1906-615 WHIN1883-105	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-40	I know not whether he who fashioned me appointed me to dwell in heaven or in dreadful hell, but some food, and an adored one, and wine, upon the green bank of a field— all these three are cash to me: thine be the credit-heaven!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-40 BOD1881-182 CAD1899-30 Chr1927-55 ROSEN1928-67 SCHACK1878-245 THOM1906-142 WHIN1883-94	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-41	The good and the bad that are in man's nature, the happiness and misery that are predestined for us — do not impute them to the heavens, for in the way of Wisdom those heavens are a thousandfold more helpless than thou art.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-111 CAD1899-32 Chr1927-83 GUY1935-34 NIC1867-95 ROSEN1928-70 SCHACK1878-83 THOM1906-144 WHIN1883-96	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-42	Whosoever has engrafted the leaf of love upon his heart, not one day of his life has been wasted; either he strives to meet with God's approbation, or he chooses bodily comfort and raises the wine-cup.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-33 Chr1927-63 GUY1935-74 NIC1867-98 ROSEN1928-74 THOM1906-147 WHIN1883-99	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-43	Everywhere that there has been a rose or tulip-bed, there has been spilled the crimson blood of a king; every violet shoot that grows from the earth is a mole that was once upon the cheek of a beauty.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-36 CAD1899-51 Chr1927-46 COW1858-4 FITZ1859-18 GUY1935-49 ROSEN1928-48 SCHACK1878-101 THOM1906-152 WHIN1883-104	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-44	Be prudent, for the means of life are uncertain; take heed, for the sword of destiny is keen. If fortune place almond-sweets in thy very mouth, beware! swallow them not, for poison is mingled therein.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-44 GUY1935-37 ROSEN1928-75 THOM1906-151 WHIN1883-103	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-45	One jar of wine and a lover's lips, on the bank of the sown field — these have robbed me of cash, and thee of the credit. Some are pledged to heaven or hell, but who ever went to hell, and who ever came from heaven?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-51d THOM1906-666	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-46	O thou, whose cheek is moulded upon the model of the wild rose, whose face is cast in the mould of Chinese idols, yesterday thy amorous glance gave to the Shah of Babylon the moves of the Knight, the Castle, the Bishop, the Pawn, and the Queen.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-51e GUY1935-80 ROSEN1928-80 THOM1906-12 WHIN1883-135	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-47	Since life passes; what is Baghdad and what is Balkh? When the cup is full, what matter if it be sweet or bitter? Drink wine, for often, after thee and me, this moon will pass on from the last day of the month to the first, and from the first to the last.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-110 CAD1899-52 Chr1927-93 COW1858-2 GUY1935-81 NIC1867-105 ROSEN1928-81 SCHACK1878-201 THOM1906-181 THOM1906-663 WHIN1883-134	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-48	Of those who draw the pure date wine and those who spend the night in prayer, not one is on the dry land, all are in the water. One is awake: the others are asleep.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-80 THOM1906-269 WHIN1883-222	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-49	This intellect that haunts the path of happiness keeps saying to thee a hundred times a day: — "Understand in this single moment of thine existence, that thou art not like those herbs which when they gather them spring up again."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-77 Chr1927-10 GUY1935-99 THOM1906-265 WHIN1883-217	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-50	Those who are the slaves of intellect and hair-splitting, have perished in bickerings about existence and non-existence; go, thou ignorant one, and choose rather grape-juice, for the ignorant from eating dry raisins have become like unripe grapes themselves.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-73 Chr1927-48 FITZ1859-39 GUY1935-97 THOM1906-264 WHIN1883-216	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-51	My coming was of no profit to the heavenly sphere, and by my departure naught will be added to its beauty and dignity; neither from anyone have my two ears heard what is the object of this my coming and going.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-83 CAD1899-62 Chr1927-94 COW1858-17 GUY1935-83 NIC1867-157 ROSEN1928-125 SCHACK1878-289 THOM1906-228 WHIN1883-176	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-52	We must be effaced in the way of love, we must be destroyed in the talons of destiny ; O sweet-faced Cup-bearer, sit thou not idle, give to me water, for dust I must become.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-55 Chr1927-12 GUY1935-142 NIC1867-112 THOM1906-427	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-53	Now that nothing but the mere name of our happiness remains, the only old friend that remains is new wine; withhold not the merry hand from the wine-cup to-day that nothing but the cup remains within our reach.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-56 NIC1867-122 THOM1906-193 WHIN1883-149	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-54	What the Pen has written never changes, and grieving only results in deep affliction; even though, all thy life, thou sufferest anguish, not one drop becomes increased beyond what it is.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-89 FITZ1859-51 THOM1906-73	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-55	O heart, for a while seek not the company of the frail ones; cease for a while to be engrossed with the commerce of love. Frequent the thresholds of the darvlshes - perhaps thou mayest be accepted for awhile by the accepted people.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-81 GUY1935-324 THOM1906-242	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-56	Those who adorn the Heavens for a fragment of time, come, and go, and come again as time goes on; in the skirt of Heaven, and in the pocket of earth, are creatures who, while God dies not, will yet be born.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-79 GUY1935-88 THOM1906-263 WHIN1883-215	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-57	Those whose beliefs are founded upon hypocrisy, come and draw a distinction between the body and the soul; I will put the wine jar on my head, if, when I have done so, they place a comb upon my head, as if I were a cock.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-75 GUY1935-121 ROSEN1928-82 THOM1906-835 WHIN1883-236	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-58	The bodies which people this heavenly vault, puzzled the learned. Beware lest thou losest the end of the string of wisdom, for even the controllers themselves become giddy.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-78 GUY1935-101 ROSEN1928-91 THOM1906-262 WHIN1883-214	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-59	I am not the man to dread my non-existence, for that half seems pleasanter to me than this half; this is a life which God has lent me, I will surrender it when the time of surrender comes.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-76 COW1858-16 GUY1935-92 ROSEN1928-90 THOM1906-261 WHIN1883-213	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-60	This caravan of life passes by mysteriously; mayest thou seize the moment that passes happily! Cup-bearer, why grieve about the to-morrow of thy patrons? give us a cup of wine, for the night wanes.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-53 BOD1881-386 CAD1899-53 Chr1927-97 COW1858-12 FITZ1859-38 GUY1935-89 NIC1867-106 ROSEN1928-97 SCHACK1878-276 THOM1906-13 WHIN1883-136	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-61	Being old, my love for thee led my head into a snare; if not, how comes it that my hand holds the cup of date-wine? My sweetheart has destroyed the penitence born of reason, and the passing seasons have torn the garment that patience sewed.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-82 THOM1906-260 WHIN1883-212	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-62	Although wine has rent my veil, so long as I have a soul I will not be separated from wine; I am in perplexity concerning vintners, for they — what will they buy that is better than what they sell?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-90 CAD1899-88a Chr1927-70 COW1858-11 FITZ1859-71 GUY1935-135 NIC1867-463 THOM1906-656 WHIN1883-208	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-63	So much generosity and kindness at the beginning, why was it? and that maintenance of me with delights and blandishments, why was it? Now Thine only endeavour is to afflict my heart; after all, what wrong have I done—once more, why was it?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-280 WHIN1883-235	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-64	In my mind may there be desire for idols houri-like, in my hand may there be, all the year round, the juice of the grape; they say to me, "May God give thee repentance!" He himself will not give it; I will none of it; let it be far off!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-121 CAD1899-59 Chr1927-1 GUY1935-133 NIC1867-151 ROSEN1928-119 THOM1906-222 WHIN1883-172	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-65	In the tavern thou canst not perform the Ablution save with wine, and thou canst not purify a tarnished reputation; be happy, for this veil of temperance of ours is so torn that it cannot be repaired.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-57 Chr1927-14 GUY1935-120 NIC1867-142 THOM1906-217 WHIN1883-165	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-66	I saw upon the terrace of a house a man, alone, who trampled upon the clay, holding it in contempt; that clay said to him in mystic language: — "Be still, for like me thou wilt be much trampled upon."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-83 THOM1906-82	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-67	It is a pleasant day, and the weather is neither hot nor cold; the rain has washed the dust from the faces of the roses; the nightingale in the Pehlevi tongue to the yellow rose cries ever:—"Thou must drink wine!"	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-49 BOD1881-249 CAD1899-60 FITZ1859-6 NIC1867-153 SCHACK1878-284 THOM1906-226 WHIN1883-174	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-68	Ere that fate makes assault upon thy head, give orders that they bring thee rose-coloured wine; thou art not treasure, O heedless dunce, that thee they hide in the earth and then dig up again.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-63 BOD1881-153 CAD1899-61 Chr1927-7 COW1858-31 FITZ1859-15 GUY1935-106 NIC1867-156 ROSEN1928-124 THOM1906-227 WHIN1883-175	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-69	Take heed to stay me with the wine-cup, and make this amber face like a ruby; when I die, wash me with wine, and out of the wood of the vine make the planks of my coffin.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-77 CAD1899-54 Chr1927-98 FITZ1859-67 GUY1935-118 ROSEN1928-126 THOM1906-186 WHIN1883-139	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-70	O Shah! destiny appointed thee to sovereignty, and saddled for thee the horse of empire; when thy golden-hoofed charger moved, setting foot upon the clay, the earth became gilded.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-509	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-71	A love that is imaginary has no value; like a fire half-dead, it gives no heat. A true lover, throughout the month, and year, and night, and day, takes neither rest, nor peace, nor food, nor sleep.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-63 GUY1935-115 NIC1867-164 ROSEN1928-129 THOM1906-626 WHIN1883-182	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-72	No one has solved the tangled secrets of eternity, no one has set foot beyond the orbit, since, so far as I can see, from tyro to teacher, impotent are the hands of all men born of woman.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-88 CAD1899-65 NIC1867-175 SCHACK1878-239 THOM1906-238 WHIN1883-190	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-73	Set limits to thy desire for worldly things and live content, sever the bonds of thy dependence upon the good and bad of life, take wine in hand and play with the curls of a loved one; for quickly all passeth away—and how many of these days remain?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-66 GUY1935-94 NIC1867-176 ROSEN1928-133 THOM1906-239 WHIN1883-191	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-74	The heavens rain down blossoms from the clouds, thou mayest say that they shed blossoms into the garden; in a lily-like cup I pour rosy wine, as the violet clouds pour down jessamine.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-259 WHIN1883-211	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-75	I drink wine, and every one drinks who like me is worthy of it; my wine-drinking is but a small thing to Him; God knew, on the Day of Creation, that I should drink wine; if I do not drink wine, God's knowledge was ignorance.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-69 GUY1935-140 NIC1867-182 ROSEN1928-141 THOM1906-21 WHIN1883-197	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-76	Do not allow sorrow to embrace thee, nor an idle grief to occupy thy days; forsake not the book, and the lover's lips, and the green bank of the field, ere that the earth enfold thee in its bosom.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-74 FITZ1859-23 GUY1935-123 THOM1906-1	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-77	Drink wine, that will banish thy abundant woes, and will banish thought of the Seventy-two Sects; avoid not the alchemist, for, from him, thou takest one draught, and he banishes a thousand calamities.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-67 Chr1927-42 FITZ1859-43 GUY1935-116 NIC1867-179 THOM1906-243 WHIN1883-194	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-78	Even though wine is forbidden, for all that it depends upon who drinks it, and then in what quantity, and also with whom he drinks it; these three conditions being as they should be; say! who drinks wine if a wise man does not do so?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-68 Chr1927-20 GUY1935-87 NIC1867-180 THOM1906-244 WHIN1883-195	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-79	Drink wine, for thy body becomes atoms in the earth, thine earth, after that, becomes goblets and jars; be thou heedless of hell and heaven, why should a wise man be deceived about such things?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-85 GUY1935-114 THOM1906-3	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-80	Now is the time when by the spring-breezes the world is adorned, and in hope of rain it opens its eyes, the hands of Moses appear like froth upon the bough, the breath of Jesus comes forth from the earth.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-86 GUY1935-103 NIC1867-186 THOM1906-251 WHIN1883-201	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-81	Every draught that the Cup-bearer scatters upon the earth quenches the fire of anguish in some afflicted eye. Praise be to God! thou realizest that wine is a juice that frees thy heart from a hundred pains.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-70 Chr1927-60 FITZ1859-44 GUY1935-147 NIC1867-188 ROSEN1928-145 THOM1906-253 WHIN1883-203	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-82	Every morning the dew bedecks the faces of the tulips, the crests of the violets in the garden are bent downward; verily, most pleasing to me is the rosebud which gathers its skirts close around itself.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-87 GUY1935-102 ROSEN1928-147 THOM1906-629 WHIN1883-210	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-83	Friends, when ye hold a meeting together, it behoves ye warmly to remember your friend; when ye drink wholesome wine together, and my turn comes, turn a goblet upside down.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-88 FITZ1859-75 THOM1906-279 WHIN1883-234	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-84	Friends, when with consent ye make a tryst together, and take delight in one another's charms, when the Cup-bearer takes round in his hand the Mugh wine, remember a certain helpless one in your benediction.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-71 FITZ1859-75 GUY1935-112 NIC1867-192 ROSEN1928-148 THOM1906-254 WHIN1883-205	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-85	One cup of wine is worth a hundred hearts and religions, one draught of wine is worth the empire of China, saving ruby wine there is not, on the face of earth, any acrid thing that is worth a thousand sweet souls.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-72 Chr1927-8 GUY1935-119 NIC1867-194 ROSEN1928-149 THOM1906-241	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-86	If thou desirest Him, be separated from wife and children, bravely move thine abode from thy relations and friends; whatever is, is an hindrance on the road for thee, how canst thou journey with these hindrances? — remove them!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-96 GUY1935-163 ROSEN1928-153 THOM1906-299 WHIN1883-256	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-87	Bring me that ruby in a clear glass, bring me that companion and intimate of all excellent people: since thou knowest that the duration of this earthly world is a wind that quickly passes by,—bring me wine.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-92 COW1858-9 GUY1935-157 NIC1867-203 THOM1906-401	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-88	Arise ! bring physic to this oppressed heart, bring that musk-scented and rose-coloured wine; if thou desirest the elements of sorrow's antidote, bring ruby wine and the silk stringed lute.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-97 THOM1906-402	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-89	I saw a potter in the bazaar yesterday, he was violently pounding the fresh clay, and that clay said to him, in mystic language, "I was once like thee—so treat me well."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-34 BOD1881-436 CAD1899-93 Chr1927-68 FITZ1859-36 GUY1935-161 NIC1867-211 ROSEN1928-161 THOM1906-295 WHIN1883-252	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-90	Drink of that wine that is eternal life, it is the stock-in-trade of youthful pleasure, drink! it burns like fire, but sorrows it makes like the water of life—drink!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-90 Chr1927-69 GUY1935-192 NIC1867-196 ROSEN1928-162 THOM1906-100	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-91	Follow not the Traditions, and leave alone the Commands, withhold not from anyone the morsel that thou possessest: neither slander, nor afflict the heart of anyone, I guarantee you the world beyond—bring wine!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-50 CAD1899-91 Chr1927-16 GUY1935-160 NIC1867-200 ROSEN1928-163 THOM1906-287 WHIN1883-244	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-92	Wine is rose-red, and the cup is filled with the water of roses, — maybe, in the crystal casket is a pure ruby, — maybe, a melted ruby is in the water, — maybe, moonlight is the veil of the sun, — maybe.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-98 THOM1906-670	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-93	Every vow we make, we break again, we shut once more upon ourselves the door of fame and fair repute; blame me not if I act as a fool, for once more am I drunken with the wine of love.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-99 THOM1906-667	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-94	To speak plain language, and not in parables, we are the pieces and heaven plays the game, we are played together in a baby-game upon the chessboard of existence, and one by one we return to the box of non-existence.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-94 BOD1881-122 CAD1899-108 Chr1927-6 COW1858-27 FITZ1859-49 GUY1935-177 NIC1867-231 ROSEN1928-168 SCHACK1878-144 THOM1906-317 WHIN1883-270	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-95	Oh, heart! since in this world truth itself is hyperbole, why art thou so disquieted with this trouble and abasement? resign thy body to destiny, and adapt thyself to the times, for, what the Pen has written, it will not re-write for thy sake.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-100 COW1858-15 GUY1935-172 NIC1867-216 ROSEN1928-170 THOM1906-300 WHIN1883-257	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-96	On the face of the rose there is still a cloud-shadow, in my nature and heart there is still a desire for wine; sleep not, what right hast thou to sleep yet? give me wine, sweetheart, for it is still daylight.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-175 NIC1867-224 THOM1906-88	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-97	Go! throw dust upon the face of the heavens, drink wine, and consort with the fair of face; what time is this for worship ? and what time is this for supplication? since, of all those that have departed, not one has returned?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-105 Chr1927-56 GUY1935-169 NIC1867-228 ROSEN1928-174 THOM1906-312 WHIN1883-267	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-98	Fill the cup! for the day breaks white like snow, learn colour from the wine that is ruby; take two fragrant aloe logs, and brighten the assembly, make one into a lute, and burn the other.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-111 THOM1906-510	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-99	We have returned to our wonted debauch, we have renounced—the Five Prayers! wherever the goblet is, there thou mayst see us, our necks stretched out like that of the bottle.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-107 Chr1927-72 GUY1935-174 NIC1867-230 ROSEN1928-175 THOM1906-315 WHIN1883-269	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-100	In great desire I pressed my lips to the lip of the jar, to enquire from it how long life might be attained; it joined its lip to mine and whispered: — "Drink wine, for, to this world, thou returnest not."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-110 Chr1927-65 COW1858-25 FITZ1859-34 GUY1935-178 ROSEN1928-177 THOM1906-320 WHIN1883-274	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-101	I will give thee counsel if thou wilt give ear to me, for the sake of God do not wear the garment of hypocrisy, the hereafter will fill all hours, and the world is but a moment, do not sell the kingdom of eternity for the sake of one moment.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-99 CAD1899-113 GUY1935-189 NIC1867-240 ROSEN1928-183 THOM1906-2 WHIN1883-280	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-102	Khayyam, if thou art drunk with wine, be happy, if thou reposest with one tulip-cheeked, be happy, since the end of all things is that thou wilt be naught; whilst thou art, imagine that thou art not,—be happy !	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-22 CAD1899-114 Chr1927-3 FITZ1859-47 GUY1935-183 NIC1867-242 ROSEN1928-186 SCHACK1878-105 THOM1906-328 WHIN1883-282	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-103	I went last night into the workshop of a potter, I saw two thousand pots, some speaking, and some silent; suddenly one of the pots cried out aggressively: — "Where are the pot maker, and the pot buyer, and the pot seller?"	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-101 BOD1881-95 CAD1899-115 COW1858-26 FITZ1859-59 FITZ1859-60 GUY1935-191 NIC1867-243 ROSEN1928-187 SCHACK1878-226 THOM1906-329 WHIN1883-283	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-104	Of this spirit, that they call pure wine, they say :—" It is a remedy for a ruined heart"; set quickly before me two or three heavily filled cups, why do they call a good water "wicked water"?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-117 THOM1906-669	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-106	Verily wine in the goblet is a delicate spirit, in the body of the jar, a delicate soul reposes, nothing heavy is worthy to be the friend of wine save the wine-cup, for that is, at the same time, heavy and delicate.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-118 GUY1935-193 NIC1867-250 THOM1906-337 WHIN1883-291	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-107	Where is the limit to eternity to come, and where to eternity past? now is the time of joy, there is no substitute for wine: both theory and practice have passed beyond my ken, wine unties the knot of every difficulty.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-122 Chr1927-73 GUY1935-198 THOM1906-342 WHIN1883-304	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-108	This vault of heaven, beneath which we stand bewildered, we know to be a sort of magic-lantern: know thou that the sun is the lamp-flame and the universe is the lamp, we are like figures that revolve in it.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-42 CAD1899-125 COW1858-28 FITZ1859-46 GUY1935-206 NIC1867-267 ROSEN1928-207 THOM1906-353 WHIN1883-310	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-109	I do not always prevail over my nature, — but what can I do ? and I suffer for my actions, — but what can I do ? I verily believe that Thou wilt generously pardon me on account of my shame that Thou hast seen what I have done, — but what can I do?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-2 CAD1899-129 GUY1935-204 NIC1867-282 ROSEN1928-209 THOM1906-366 WHIN1883-322	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-110	Let me arise and seek pure wine, make thou the colour of my cheek like that of the jujube fruit, as for this meddling intellect, a fist-full of wine will I throw in its face, to make it sleep.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-139 THOM1906-84	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-111	How long shall we continue slaves to every-day problems? what matter whether we live one year, or one day, in this world? pour out a cup of wine, before that we become pots in the workshop of the potters.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-127 Chr1927-53 GUY1935-231 NIC1867-277 ROSEN1928-214 THOM1906-363 WHIN1883-320	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-112	Since our abode in this monastery is not permanent without the Cup-bearer and the beloved, it is painful to support life; how long of ancient creeds or new, O philosopher? when I have left it what matter if the world be old or new?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-107 CAD1899-130 Chr1927-9 GUY1935-225 NIC1867-284 ROSEN1928-219 THOM1906-367 WHIN1883-324	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-113	In loving Thee I incur reproaches for a hundred sins, and if I fail in this obligation I pay a penalty: if my life remain faithful to Thy cruelty, please God, I shall have less than that to bear till the Judgment Day.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-132 GUY1935-212 NIC1867-287 ROSEN1928-221 THOM1906-370 WHIN1883-327	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-114	The world being fleeting, I practise naught but artifice, I hold only with cheerfulness and sparkling wine; they say to me: — " May God grant thee penitence." He himself does not give it, and if He gives it, I will none of it.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-133 GUY1935-217 NIC1867-289 THOM1906-372 WHIN1883-329	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-115	Although I have come with an air of supplication to the mosque, by Allah ! I have not come to pray; I came one day and stole a prayer-mat - that sin wears out, and I come again and again.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-84 CAD1899-131 GUY1935-223 NIC1867-285 ROSEN1928-222 THOM1906-368 WHIN1883-325	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-116	When I am abased beneath the foot of destiny and am rooted up from the hope of life, take heed that thou makest nothing but a goblet of my clay, haply when it is full of wine I may revive.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-141 CAD1899-134 Chr1927-40 FITZ1859-65 GUY1935-226 NIC1867-290 ROSEN1928-220 THOM1906-373 WHIN1883-330	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-117	My heart does not distinguish between the bait and the trap, one counsel urges it towards the mosque, another towards the cup; nevertheless the wine-cup, and the loved one, and I continually together, are better, cooked, in a tavern, than raw, in a monastery.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-668	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-118	It is morning: let us for a moment inhale rose-coloured wine, and shatter against a stone this vessel of reputation and honour; let us cease to strive after what has long been our hope, and play with long ringlets and the handle of the lute.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-122 BOD1881-408 CAD1899-135 NIC1867-294 SCHACK1878-87 THOM1906-375 WHIN1883-332	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-119	We have preferred a corner and two loaves to the world, and we have put away greed of its estate and magnificence; we have bought poverty with our heart and soul — in poverty we have discerned great riches.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-140 COW1858-14 THOM1906-107	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-120	I know the outwardness of existence and of non-existence, I know the inwardness of all that is high and low; nevertheless let me be modest about my own knowledge if I recognise any degree higher than drunkenness.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-137 FITZ1859-41 GUY1935-218 NIC1867-300 ROSEN1928-234 THOM1906-379 WHIN1883-336	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-121	For a while, when young, we frequented a teacher, for a while we were contented with our proficiency; behold the foundation of the discourse:—what happened to us? we came in like water and we depart like wind.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-141 SCHACK1878-183 THOM1906-396 WHIN1883-353	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-122	To him who understands the mysteries of the world, the joy and sorrow of the world is all the same; since the good and the bad of the world will come to an end; what matter, since it must end? an thou wilt, be all pain, or, an thou wilt, all remedy.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-142 Chr1927-113 GUY1935-252 NIC1867-322 ROSEN1928-239 THOM1906-409 WHIN1883-365	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-123	So far as in thee lies, follow the example of the profligate, destroy the foundations of prayer and fasting: hear thou the Word of Truth from Omar Khayyám, "Drink wine, rob on the highway, and be benevolent."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-106 CAD1899-143 Chr1927-57 GUY1935-251 NIC1867-327 THOM1906-412 WHIN1883-368	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-124	Since the harvest for the human race, in this wilderness, is naught but to suffer affliction or to give up the ghost, light-hearted is he who passes quickly from this world, and he who never came into the world is at rest.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-112 GUY1935-247 ROSEN1928-246 THOM1906-438 WHIN1883-387	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-125	Darvísh! rend from thy body the figured veil, rather than sacrifice thy body for the sake of that veil; go and throw upon thy shoulders the old rug of poverty — beneath that rug thou art equal to a sultan.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-380	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-126	Behold the evil conduct of this vault of heaven, behold the world — empty by the passing away of friends; as far as thou art able live for thyself for one moment, look not for to-morrow, seek not yesterday, behold the present!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ROSEN1928-249 THOM1906-437 WHIN1883-386	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-127	To drink wine and consort with a company of the beautiful is better than practising the hypocrisy of the zealot; if the lover and the drunkard are doomed to hell, then no one will see the face of heaven.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-248 NIC1867-342 ROSEN1928-256 THOM1906-425 WHIN1883-381	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-128	One cannot consume one's happy heart with sorrow, nor consume the pleasure of one's life upon the touchstone; no one is to be found who knows what is to be; wine, and a loved one, and to repose according to one's desire, — these things are necessary.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-71 GUY1935-241 NIC1867-344 ROSEN1928-253 THOM1906-426 WHIN1883-382	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-129	This heavenly vault, for the sake of my destruction and thine, wages war upon my pure soul and thine; sit upon the green sward, O my Idol ! for it will not be long ere that green sward shall grow from my dust and thine.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-80 Chr1927-35 COW1858-3 GUY1935-261 NIC1867-348 ROSEN1928-262 THOM1906-442 WHIN1883-390	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-130	What profits it, our coming and going? and where is the woof for the warp of the stuff of our life? How many delicate bodies the world burns away to dust! and where is the smoke of them?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-124 Chr1927-114 GUY1935-255 NIC1867-351 ROSEN1928-259 THOM1906-635 WHIN1883-393	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-131	Flee from the study of all sciences—'tis better thus, and twine thy fingers in the curly locks of a loved one—'tis better thus, ere that fate shall spill thy blood; pour thou the blood of the bottle into the cup—'tis better thus.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-93 Chr1927-45 GUY1935-278 NIC1867-359 THOM1906-533 WHIN1883-426	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-132	Ah! I have brushed the tavern doorway with my moustaches, I have bidden farewell to the good and evil of both worlds; though both the worlds should fall like balls in my street, seek me,—ye will find me sleeping like a drunkard.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-271 NIC1867-364 THOM1906-517 WHIN1883-409	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-133	From everything save wine abstinence is best, and that wine is best when served by drunken beauties in a pavilion, drinking, and Kalendarism, and erring, are best, one draught of wine from Mah to Mahi is best.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-19 GUY1935-280 NIC1867-358 ROSEN1928-266 THOM1906-512 WHIN1883-404	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-134	This heavenly vault is like a bowl, fallen upside down, under which all the wise have fallen captive, choose thou the manner of friendship of the goblet and the jar, they are lip to lip, and blood has fallen between them.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-92 Chr1927-43 FITZ1859-52 GUY1935-273 NIC1867-363 ROSEN1928-269 THOM1906-516 WHIN1883-408	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-135	See, the skirt of the rose has been torn by the breeze, the nightingale rejoices in the beauty of the rose; sit in the shade of the rose, for, by the wind, many roses have been scattered to earth and have become dust.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-55 GUY1935-279 NIC1867-370 ROSEN1928-270 THOM1906-522 WHIN1883-414	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-136	How long shall I grieve about what I have or have not, and whether I shall pass this life light-heartedly or not? Fill up the wine-cup, for I do not know that I shall breathe out this breath that I am drawing in.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-26 GUY1935-327 NIC1867-366 ROSEN1928-272 THOM1906-519 WHIN1883-411	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-137	Submit not to the sorrow of this iniquitous world, remind us not of sorrow for those who have passed away, give thine heart only to one jasmine-bosomed and fairy-born, be not without wine, and cast not thy life to the winds.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-265 NIC1867-367 ROSEN1928-273 THOM1906-520 WHIN1883-412	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-138	Though thy life pass sixty years, do not give up; wherever thou directest thy steps, walk not save when drunk; before they make the hollow of thy skull into a jar, lower not the jar from thy shoulder, neither relinquish the cup.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-267 NIC1867-362 ROSEN1928-267 THOM1906-644 WHIN1883-407	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-139	One draught of old wine is better than a new kingdom, avoid any way save that of wine—'tis better so; the cup is a hundred times better than the kingdom of Feridun, the tile that covers the jar is better than the crown of Kal-Khosru.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-269 NIC1867-382 ROSEN1928-282 THOM1906-110	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-140	Those, O Saki, who have gone before us, have fallen asleep, O Saki, in the dust of self-esteem; go thou and drink wine, and hear the truth from me, whatever they have said, O Saki, is but wind.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-116 BOD1881-219 FITZ1859-25 GUY1935-285 NIC1867-384 SCHACK1878-160 THOM1906-535 WHIN1883-428	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-141	Thou hast broken my jug of wine, O Lord; Thou hast shut upon me the door of happiness, O Lord; thou hast spilled my pure wine upon the earth; may I perish! but thou art strange, O Lord!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-296 NIC1867-388 ROSEN1928-285 THOM1906-464	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-142	O heaven! thou givest something to every base creature, thou suppliest baths, and millstreams, and canals; the pure man plays hazard for his night's provisions: wouldst thou give a fig for such a heaven?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-309 ROSEN1928-294 THOM1906-599 WHIN1883-492	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-143	O heart! at the mysterious secret thou arrivest not, at the conceits of the ingenious philosophers thou arrivest not; make thyself a heaven here with wine and cup, for at that place where heaven is, thou mayst arrive, or mayst not.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-33 GUY1935-312 NIC1867-383 ROSEN1928-295 THOM1906-534 WHIN1883-427	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-144	Thou eatest always smoke from the kitchen of the world; how long wilt thou suffer miseries concerning what is or is not? thou desirest not a stock in trade, for its source weakens, and who will consume the capital, seeing that thou consumest all the profit?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	NIC1867-397 THOM1906-637 WHIN1883-439	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-145	O soul! if thou canst purify thyself from the dust of the body, thou, naked spirit, canst soar in the heavens, the Empyrean is thy sphere,—let it be thy shame, that thou comest and art a dweller within the confines of earth.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-135 COW1858-7 NIC1867-394 SCHACK1878-10 THOM1906-546 WHIN1883-436	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-146	I smote the glass wine-cup upon a stone last night, my head was turned that I did so base a thing; the cup said to me in mystic language, "I was like thee, and thou also wilt be like me."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-117 Chr1927-36 COW1858-29 GUY1935-297 NIC1867-404 ROSEN1928-299 THOM1906-554 WHIN1883-446	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-147	Grasp the wine-cup and the flagon, O heart's desire! pleasantly, pleasantly, and cheerfully, wander in the garden by the river brink; many are the excellent folk whom malicious heaven has made a hundred times into cups, and a hundred times into flagons.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-671	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-148	In a thousand places on the road I walk. Thou placest snares, Thou sayest, "I will catch thee if thou placest step in them"; in no smallest thing is the world independent of Thee, Thou orderest all things, and callest me rebellious.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-60 FITZ1859-57 THOM1906-539 WHIN1883-432	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-149	I desire a little ruby wine and a book of verses, just enough to keep me alive and half a loaf is needful; and then, that I and thou, should sit in a desolate place is better than the kingdom of a sultan.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-443 COW1858-13 FITZ1859-11 NIC1867-413 SCHACK1878-125 THOM1906-560 WHIN1883-452	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-150	Do not give way so much to vain grief,—live happily, and, in the way of injustice, set thou an example of justice, since the final end of this world is nothingness; suppose thyself to be nothing, and be free.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-607 WHIN1883-500	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-151	Gaze as I may on all sides, in the garden flows a stream from the river Kausar, the desert becomes like heaven, thou mayst say hell has disappeared, sit thou then in heaven with one heavenly-faced.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-18 GUY1935-301 NIC1867-420 THOM1906-567 WHIN1883-459	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-152	Be happy! they settled thy reward yesterday, and beyond the reach of all thy longings is yesterday; live happily, for without any importunity on thy part yesterday, they appointed with certainty what thou wilt do to-morrow, — yesterday!	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-295 ROSEN1928-308 THOM1906-596 WHIN1883-489	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-153	Pour out the red wine of pure tulip colour, draw the pure blood from the throat of the jar, for to-day, beside the wine-cup, there is not, for me, one friend who possesses a pure heart.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-89 GUY1935-315 NIC1867-427 THOM1906-571 WHIN1883-464	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-154	To the ear of my heart Heaven whispered secretly: — "The commands that are decreed thou mayst learn from me: had I a hand in my own revolutions, I would have saved myself from giddiness."	Heron-Allen, E.	English	THOM1906-23	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-155	If a loaf of wheaten-bread be forthcoming, a gourd of wine, and a thigh-bone of mutton, and then, if thou and I be sitting in the wilderness, — that would be a joy to which no sultan can set bounds.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-28 GUY1935-293 NIC1867-448 ROSEN1928-320 THOM1906-586 WHIN1883-479	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-156	If henceforth two measures of wine come to thy hand, drink thou wine in every assembly and congregation, for He who made the world does not occupy Himself about moustaches like thine, or a beard like mine.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-291 NIC1867-447 ROSEN1928-321 THOM1906-585 WHIN1883-478	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-157	Had I charge of the matter I would not have come, and likewise could I control my going, where should I go? were it not better than that, that in this world I had neither come, nor gone, nor lived?	Heron-Allen, E.	English	Chr1927-34 COW1858-30 GUY1935-311 NIC1867-450 ROSEN1928-318 SCHACK1878-33 THOM1906-597 WHIN1883-490	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-158	The month of Ramazan passes and Shawwal comes, the season of increase, and joy, and story-tellers comes; now comes that time when "Bottles upon the shoulder!" they say, — for the porters come and are back to back.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-84 FITZ1859-66 THOM1906-266 WHIN1883-218	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-1	If I have never threaded the pearl of Thy service, and if I have never wiped the dust of sin from my face; nevertheless, I am not hopeless of Thy mercy, for the reason that I have never said that One was Two.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-106 Chr1927-104 GUY1935-167 NIC1867-229 ROSEN1928-176 THOM1906-313 WHIN1883-268	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-2	If I talk of the mystery with Thee in a tavern, it is better than if I make my devotions before the Mihrab without Thee. O Thou, the first and last of all created beings! burn me an Thou wilt, or cherish me an Thou wilt.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-17 CAD1899-103 Chr1927-52 FITZ1859-56 GUY1935-170 NIC1867-222 ROSEN1928-172 SCHACK1878-17 THOM1906-305 WHIN1883-262	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-3	So far as in thee lies, reproach not drunkards, lay thou aside pretence and imposture; if, henceforth, thou desirest rest from this life of thine, do not for a moment shun humble folk.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-4b THOM1906-672	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-4	So far as in thee lies, cause no pain to anyone, nor cause anyone to suffer from thy wrath; if thou hast a desire for eternal peace, fret thyself always and harass no one.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-4a THOM1906-49 WHIN1883-15	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-5	Since no one will guarantee thee a to-morrow, make thou happy now this love-sick heart; drink wine in the moonlight, O Moon, for the moon shall seek us long and shall not find us.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-70 CAD1899-1 Chr1927-50 COW1858-10 FITZ1859-74 GUY1935-3 NIC1867-8 ROSEN1928-2 SCHACK1878-96 THOM1906-26 WHIN1883-7	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-6	The Qur'an, which men call the Supreme Word, they read at intervals but not continually, but on the lines upon the goblet a text is engraved which they read at all times and in all places.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-48 CAD1899-3 Chr1927-41 GUY1935-7 NIC1867-11 ROSEN1928-4 SCHACK1878-141 THOM1906-43 WHIN1883-10	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-7	Here are we; and so is the wine, and the drinking bench; and the ruined furnace; careless of hopes of mercy, and of fears of punishment; our souls, and our hearts, and our goblets, and our garments full of the lees of wine, independent of earth and air, and fire and water.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-6 Chr1927-66 GUY1935-9 NIC1867-19 ROSEN1928-8 SCHACK1878-41 THOM1906-642 WHIN1883-22	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-8	In this life it is best that thou shouldst make but few friends; distant intercourse with one's fellow men is good; that person upon whom thou leanest entirely, when thou examinest him closely, he is thine enemy.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	GUY1935-27 NIC1867-75 ROSEN1928-12 THOM1906-126 WHIN1883-77	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-9	This jug was once a plaintive lover as I am, and was in pursuit of one of comely face; this handle that thou seest upon its neck is an arm that once lay around the neck of a friend.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	ANET1957-33 BOD1881-64 CAD1899-10 Chr1927-38 COW1858-5 FITZ1859-35 NIC1867-28 ROSEN1928-20 SCHACK1878-5 THOM1906-5 WHIN1883-32	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-10	Ah, woe to that heart in which there is no passion, which is not spell-bound by the love of a heart-cheerer! the day that thou spendest without love, there is no day more useless to thee than that day.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-35 Chr1927-22 GUY1935-75 ROSEN1928-22 THOM1906-164 WHIN1883-117	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-105	Regard my virtues one by one, and forgive my crimes ten by ten, pardon every crime that is past, the reckoning is with God! let not the wind and air fan the flame of thy rancour, by Muhammad's tomb! forgive me.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	BOD1881-195 CAD1899-116 GUY1935-190 NIC1867-249 ROSEN1928-190 THOM1906-334 WHIN1883-288	This action can not be undone.
HER1898/2-17	The spring breeze blows sweetly upon the face of the rose, in the shade of the garden plot a darling's face is sweet; nothing thou canst say of yesterday that is past, is sweet, be happy and do not speak of yesterday, for to-day is sweet.	Heron-Allen, E.	English	CAD1899-43 Chr1927-23 COW1858-6 GUY1935-61 ROSEN1928-25 THOM1906-159 WHIN1883-112	This action can not be undone.

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