1. Golden like the sun she appears to us
In her round goblet with a halo

2. The water plays with her blend
And makes her laugh with bright stars

3. When the young man's worries attack him
You will see in her his place of refuge

4. She quenches his thirst and draws him near
And chases away his pain and delights his joy

5. Glass and wine and water as
The philosophers say, spirit and form

6. Cast off your sleep and look
At a day that poured its light on the night

7. As if the darkness of night when it faded
Dawn stole away unveiling its bed

8. We drank in the face of the full moon in the sky
And we were given to drink in the face of the blazing sun

9. With the fragrance of light, its resting place
Returns song to every branch

10. The pressing winds blew over it
Stirring each cloud

11. As if al-Farazdaq in his flight
Responding to every poem of Jarir's

12. We shortened by it the long night of perfection
With a delightful life, we had no equal to it

13. As if the cups in the hands of the cupbearers
Horses attacking our worries

14. And the pleasures of bliss for it there is an hour
That counts even if it is short