I staggered, drunk, outside a bar last night
and saw a tipsy older man emerge,
a bottle slung across his shoulder; and
I said to him, “At your age, aren’t you
ashamed before the Lord Almighty?” He
laughed, “God is merciful: Here, have some wine!”
Translated by Juan Cole
from Omar Khayyam’s Rubaiyat, [pdf] Whinfield 284