As for the parts of a wineglass
that have been joined together–
no hand would set out
to break them apart.
But as for the shapely
hands and feet of a temptress–
whose grace joins them together?
and whose hatred in the end
sunders them?
Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 42
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Sadly, we have the answer to the final question in the cold blooded murder of a fourteen old girl by a Taliban follower and the subsequent defense of that act by one of their leaders.