Living
Quatrain 11
Translated by E. H. Whinfield (1883) · From The Quatrains (Whinfield)
Living
Blame not the drunkards, you who wine eschew,
Had I but grace, I would abstain like you,
And mark me, vaunting zealot, you commit
A hundredfold worse sins than drunkards do.
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MLA
Khayyam, Omar. “Quatrain 11.” Translated by E. H. Whinfield. Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/omar-khayyam/10/.
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Khayyam, Omar. “Quatrain 11.” Translated by E. H. Whinfield. Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/omar-khayyam/10/.
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