Hafez — "Saki! with the light of wine, up-kindle the cup of ours. Minstrel! speak, saying…"
Saki! with the light of wine, up-kindle the cup of ours. Minstrel! speak, saying: The worlds work hath gone to the desire of ours.
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From a ghazal, as translated by Henry Wilberforce Clarke
Date: c. 1325-1390 AD (original composition)
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