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209 FROM THE PERSIAN OF HAFIZ.

, fetch the ruby wine

Which with sudden greatness fills us;

Pour for me, who in my spirit

Fail in courage and performance.

Bring this philosophic stone,

Karun's treasure, Noah's age;

Haste, that by thy means I open

All the doors of luck and life.

Bring to me the liquid fire

Zoroaster sought in dust: