Choice wine, whose bitter strength can sweeten best The emb… - Abu-Mansur Daqiqi

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Choice wine, whose bitter strength can sweeten best
The embittered mind, and flood
The air with colour, as when goshawk's breast
Is dyed with pheasant's blood

Abu-Mansur Daqiqi

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Abu Mansur Daqiqi (c. 935 — 977) was one of the most prominent Persian poets of the Samanid era.

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Alternative Names: Abu Mansur Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Daqiqi Tusi

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To ward the kingdom, Fortune took thy sword,
And beauty chose thy hand, herself to word.
In Heaven for thy decree Fate listening stands,
The dinar from its ore sets out to win thy hands.

Daqiqi has chosen four qualities of all good and evil things in the world:
Ruby-colored lips and the sound of the lute.
Old red wine and the Zoroastrian religion!

A composite whose body is of light,
But all its soul and spirit of fiery strain;
A star that hath its setting in the mouth,
But ever rises on the cheeks again

Choice wine, whose bitter strength can sweeten best The embittered mind, and flood The air with colour, as when goshawk's breast Is dyed with pheasan… - Abu-Mansur Daqiqi

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