1. In the intoxication of the red and the green
There is safety from the black and the yellow

2. This one has no boiling fire and that one
Its clothes are dyed without dye

3. So break the evil of that one with the calmness of this
And marvel at the beauty of the harmony of the parts

4. For drunkenness lies between these two compounds
Like the drowsiness of hashish and the alertness of caffeine