See You Have Dancers

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See you have dancers and wine and a girl like one of the angels (If they exist), And find a clear stream singing near its birth and a bed of moss (If moss exists), For loving and singing to the dancers and drinking and forgetting hell (If hell exists), Because this is a pastime better than paradise (If paradise exists). From the Persian of Omar Khayyam (eleventh century).

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