Motif
absent companion remembered by inverted empty cup
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A motif of the Sacred Love and Longing family. Every row below is a tagged passage; each rests on a quote in its source text.
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sufi
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The Sufistic Quatrains of Omar Khayyam XCIII. / XCIV. / XCVI. / XCIX.; lines 4308-4368 confidence: high
The speaker addresses the Saki, imagines the Saki passing among star-scattered guests on the grass, and asks that at the spot where the speaker made One an empty glass be turned down.
Friends or guests drinking wine are instructed to remember the absent friend when his turn comes by turning down an empty glass or goblet.
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