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I bought abandon dear
And sold all piety for pleasure.
My own free spirit I have followed,
And never will I give up lust.


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Critic, relent!
Your hope for repentance
Will meet with disappointment.
For this is the life,
Not desert tents,
Not camel's milk!


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You, mad to expect repentance,
Tear your robe all you want;
I will never repent!


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Abu Nuwas
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Born: 756
Died: 814 (aged 58)
Bio: Abū Nuwās al-Ḥasan ibn Hānī al-Ḥakamī,a known as Abū Nuwās was one of the greatest classical Arabic poets, who also composed in Persian on occasion.

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