1. I came in the evening to a Christian's house
With honest youths, you'd not see among them a stranger

2. When we knocked on his door, he got up frightened
And rushed to the door, filled with fear

3. And said, "Who is knocking at our door at night?"
I said to him, "Open up, youths seeking wine."

4. He opened his doors without hesitation
And brought out a moon-like beauty from his rooms

5. She walked ahead of the men, dragging her skirt
Swaying her hips gracefully as she walked

6. I asked her, "What's your name, beauty?" She said to me
"My father called me Saba and nicknamed me Shamra."

7. We almost swooned from the sweetness of her voice
And could not show patience for her speech

8. I said to her, "We've come to buy mature coffee
That's been sitting for ages and run out of stock."

9. She said, "Stay with me, I have what you're looking for
It's been hiding in its pot for ten years."

10. I said, "What's her price?" She said, "Her price
Is five gold coins I poured out for her."

11. I said to her, "Take it and bring out her container."
He got up happily and brought it out to us.

12. It shone as if filled with a cure for him
Flowing like the full moon in its luster

13. And he brought it while the night draped its darkness
Covering it, as if it had just been filled.

14. A beauty of the pot, pleased by the pot, pressed early,
She became its heart and it became her chest.

15. When the cup takes her, she almost flies with its scent,
Though no scent comes from her, you'd think it did.

16. He kept serving us as he drank on steadily
Until he sang tipsily as drunkenness took him over.

17. No doe, grazing the grass of a meadow, is as beautiful
As he who rose unsteadily, plucking green leaves.

18. He adorned himself, reporting gracefully,
No, the doe took after his neck and chest in beauty.

19. O, his sweet voice, emerging from his tongue,
O, his sweet glance, O, his sweet lips!

20. He fell asleep, not knowing if the ground was his pillow
Or he saw open ground and took it for a pillow, drunk.

21. We got up when he fell asleep and his eyelids
Fluttered over his eyes as he slumbered deeply.

22. When he saw no escape from this, and softness met him,
He generously pressed wine for us.