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Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Faithful Friends
Hāfiz, Dīwān, Ghazal 355 (tr. A.J. Alston):
Let me have no friends or companions But a wine-flask and a book, That I may avoid all association With the deceitful denizens of the world.