1. The cup in Gada's graceful hand
Arise, O brother of abstinence, you are not dismissed

2. She urges it with the singing of a singer
Expressing through it the melody of David

3. If you wish like a bending branch
Or if you wish like a bird with chirping

4. If her hand touches its wood
The waters of inspiration flow in the wood

5. She excelled in beauty and grace, therefore
The saying of the people about her is truthful

6. How excellent her cup and meadow abode
With the finest rain, free-flowing

7. Both of them the epitome of beauty, so
The full moon near her is not counted

8. It bends its bouquet over the clouds
As my poems bend over my masters