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Rh Bring wine, that I overspring

Both worlds at a single leap.

Stole, at dawn, from glowing spheres

Call of Houris to my sense:—

'O lovely bird, delicious soul,

Spread thy pinions, break thy cage;

Sit on the roof of seven domes,

Where the spirits take their rest.'

In the time of Bisurdschimihr,

Menutscheher's beauty shined.

On the beaker of Nushirvan,

Wrote they once in elder times,

'Hear the counsel; learn from us

Sample of the course of things:

The earth—it is a place of sorrow,

Scanty joys are here below;

Who has nothing has no sorrow.'

Where is Jam, and where his cup?

Solomon and his mirror, where?

Which of the wise masters knows

What time Kauss and Jam existed?