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About Umar Ibn al-FaridTimeline (1181 - 1235) |
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In memory of the beloved (from The Wine Ode (al-Khamriyah))
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In memory of the beloved
we drank a wine; we were drunk with it before creation of the vine. The full moon its glass, the wine a sun circled by a crescent; when it is mixed, how many stars appear! If not for its bouquet, I would not have found its tavern; if not for its flashing gleam, how could imagination picture it? Time preserved nothing of it save one last breath, concealed like a secret in the breasts of wise men. But if it is recalled among the tribe, the worthy ones are drunk by morn without shame or sin.
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