1. A jug that quenches the thirst of revelers
With goblets of sparkling wine intoxicating with drunkenness

2. In each cup floats as though
The spirit of the sun embraced the body of the full moon

3. When a bottle comes to one of us
He takes it gently in his ten fingers

4. And drinks from it a grape drunkenness
That puts to sleep wakeful eyes without him knowing

5. And he sends it back in its water and returns it
To the stillness of my leg upon whose rule it flows

6. We have made our hearing upon drinking wine
Melodies sung by birds without poetry

7. And our cupbearer is water that pours without hands
And our drink is fire that illuminates without embers

8. He gave us pleasures, so his reward from us
Is that we gave him to drink from the sea

9. As though we on the shore of the gulf are cities
Ships of wine travel between us

10. Life is but in the extremity of pleasure
And defiance of chastity in which excuse is seemly