And lately, by the Tavern Door agape, Came shining through the Dusk an Angel Shape Bearing a Vessel on his Shoulder; and He bid me taste of it; and 'twas - the Grape! Illustration by Edmund Dulac from the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, published 1909.

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