- Do not look on the wine when it is red, When it sparkles in the cup, When it goes down smoothly;
- At the last it bites like a serpent And stings like a viper.
- Your eyes will see strange things And your mind will utter perverse things.
- And you will be like one who lies down in the middle of the sea, Or like one who lies down on the top of a mast.
- "They struck me, but I did not become ill; They beat me, but I did not know it When shall I awake? I will seek another drink."
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- Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.
- At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.
- Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.
- Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.
- They have stricken me, shalt thou say, and I was not sick; they have beaten me, and I felt it not: when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again.
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