Omar Khayyam (313) “wine loosens even cast-iron shackles”

Posted on 07/15/2012 by Juan Cole

Wine-bibbing makes people 
       less full of themselves,
and wine loosens even
    cast-iron  shackles.
If satan had only 
    tippled every night,
he would not have been cast down 
         from heaven for his pride.

Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 313/ Arberry 1949

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§ 2 Responses to “Omar Khayyam (313) “wine loosens even cast-iron shackles””

  • Martin Rodgers says:
    07/15/2012 at 3:12 am

    As a City supporter, the red mist would have descended and he would have been thrown out of Old Trafford anyway.

  • Grandmère Mimi says:
    07/15/2012 at 10:59 am

    Omar, the wine-bibber, is wonderfully entertaining. I wonder if he wrote these lines intending a laugh-out-loud response. Or perhaps he didn’t care at all about responses.

    June Butler