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Muhammad Qasim
(1627) Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.

Wine Pourer

Illuminated miniature of Shah Abbas I (1571-1629), Persia

Shah Abbas I, through the story of this ancient gay poem, tells of the Muslim prince embracing his servant wine boy through its seductive lyrics… “May life grant all that you desire from three lips, those of your lover, the river, and the cup.”

Risqué firmly presses his lips against his wine cup contemplating the lips of his lover and that of the river flowing from his cup.

Input needed LUSHES… should Risqué exchange his pool boy for a wine boy?

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803–1882 
  
BRING me wine, but wine which never grew  
In the belly of the grape,  
Or grew on vine whose tap-roots, reaching through  
Under the Andes to the Cape,  
Suffer’d no savour of the earth to ’scape.
 
Let its grapes the morn salute  
From a nocturnal root,  
Which feels the acrid juice  
Of Styx and Erebus;  
And turns the woe of Night,
By its own craft, to a more rich delight.   
 
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