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For they may drink, then forget what has been decreed,
    and pervert the justice due to the poor.
Give strong liquor to one who is perishing,
    wine to the deeply depressed;
let him drink, forget his poverty
    and cease to remember his troubles.

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lest they drink(A) and forget what has been decreed,(B)
    and deprive all the oppressed of their rights.
Let beer be for those who are perishing,
    wine(C) for those who are in anguish!
Let them drink(D) and forget their poverty
    and remember their misery no more.

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