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