‘The Morning Cup’ (2014) is a pencil drawing by Nigel Jackson inspired by the following lines from Ode 17 of Charles Upton’s Nineteen Odes After Hafiz:
The morning blossoms, and immediately the cloud conceals it under her veil The cup of the morning, my friends! The morning cup!...
From the meadow the breeze of Paradise is blowing, So drink pure wine , without pause, without end...
To the memory of the Saki, formed like the youths of Paradise Drink pure wine in the season of the rose.
