1. I drank from the wine as much as was poured for me
In cups by a beautiful and cheerful host

2. So my sobriety was revealed to my friends
By my intoxication with that which enthralled me

3. And it made me find with it my non-existence as existence
For every lasting fortune in me is fleeting

4. And it gave me life, so it revived me with my death
By freeing me, a bird, when it entrapped me

5. And it narrated me and narrated me, and from it
And with love of love, it imprisoned me in my cage

6. Hens came cooing to us
With eggs in an embrace within embrace

7. For a rooster, what you have, he has it and from
Him the call to prayer removed from me and deafened my ear

8. So my rapture with it, my rapture is to it
And from the eye of the transgressors, to you from me

9. If I smelled an aroma from it for familiarity
I would attain the utmost of wishes from joy

10. And if the crow loved you to kill you
It would restore you as a bird after burial

11. And if fate made you a sparrow
You would not escape from it as free hawks