1. Oh my people, my neighbor has tempted me
After I grew old and was weakened by age

2. And four years have come upon me
After sixty passed me by

3. After I was once a virile young man
Among does aroused by the rain

4. Gray hair took me by surprise
When I, an old man, was counted as harmful

5. How lovely is drinking in the two abodes when
I stay up at night after the moon has gone

6. We have a tinkling jug
And a boy who drums whenever we desire

7. Beautiful fair one with a butcher's brand
His adornment: speckles, ruby, and pearl

8. And if I say to him “Rise and serve us drinks”
He gets up and walks with the stride of a ferocious lion

9. And he brings us coffee in a brass pot
That we sip from golden cups

10. And pitchers as vast as can be
And the one in his grip has a sealed spout

11. Like a chick startled in the bushes
Fearing the falcon, ducking down and looking

12. Or a gazelle at a watering hole sighting a hunter
Fearing the bowman in the early morn and startling

13. Then actually standing still, apprehensive
Skittish atop a boulder