Prudes don’t know Your grace
the way we do,
and strangers cannot know You
as Your close friends do.
You said, “If you commit a sin
I will consign you to hell!”
Yeah, sure- tell it to someone
who doesn’t know the real You!
Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 204
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Are you going to publish your translation in a book when finished? I would like to order a copy.