Motif
wine-cup against grief over possession and lack
wine_cup_against_grief_over_possession_and_lack
A motif of the Sacred Substance and Divine Intoxication family, within the sub-family Wine, Consolation, and Mortality. 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 IN THE FIRST EDITION. / XXXIII. / XXXVII. / IN THE SECOND EDITION.; lines 4516-4537 confidence: medium
The cited O. 136 quatrain asks how long the speaker shall grieve over what they have or have not, tells someone to fill the wine-cup, and says the speaker does not know whether they will breathe out the breath being drawn in.
The cited source quatrain contrasts grieving over what one has or has not with the instruction to fill the wine-cup.
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