1. Joy prevails as sorrow fades away,
And hardship has passed.

2. Time fulfills a life of ease,
So enjoy this state.

3. Rise to revelry, O son of joy,
With a goblet I meet,

4. A crystal cup filled with gold,
In the hands of a pourer.

5. I gained no cheek with this flame,
Burning me.

6. Playing with me, losing my reason
In folly, if it lingered.

7. If he saw disease dwelling in my body,
Ever painful.

8. O my blamer, stop blaming me,
And cease reproaching.

9. In my gazelle his love remained,
Perfectly composed.

10. Lost to me, my hope in him
Prolonged in procrastination.

11. Wilful, but with the lion,
If he attacked or withdrew.

12. In his power's shadow a bundle,
Severing limbs.

13. How it bent, and towards it,
The souls bent.

14. It cried, and like the target stood,
If tomorrow, or went.

15. It was not accustomed but to my ruins,
And in it I rested.

16. It turned from me, wearing my hide,
If only it turned to me.

17. I called it, it did not leave for me in my hands,
Affection or wealth.