1. Some of us greet each other with longing
When the drinker kisses the brimming cup

2. For you I have basil, its rug adorned
With a flower, as the sky was adorned with stars

3. A train, as the trains of dangling tresses trailed
Of a coquettish one with waving locks

4. He quenched it with tears of roses, poured by a leg
And aged it for him with camphor and musk

5. In it the glances were set free and bent
Confined on both sides by the cheeks

6. And a keeper of the water of life for youths
Whose life is that drafts be enjoyed

7. Clothing it in the finest garb, though
Its puffs and trains best suit it

8. On a body like emerald that never ceased
To match it in color and proportion

9. When pure molten gold is entrusted
He measures it and it melts away