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THE LOVERS
Persian miniature, Rezâ-yé 'Abbâsi, Isfahan School, 1630
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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"Drink wine before your name disappears from this world,
for once the nectar enters your heart, all chagrin will leave it.
Unknot, curl by curl, the hair of a charming idol,
before your own bones are themselves unknotted."
Omar Khayyam, The Rubaiyat (quatrain 155)
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