1. Pour me wine, and say it is wine,
Do not secretly pour, if it can be done openly,

2. For life is only drunkenness after drunkenness,
And if it were long with Him, time would be short.

3. And loss is only that you see me sober,
And gain is only that drunkenness makes me stagger.

4. So confess the name of her you love, and spare me from aliases,
For there is no good in pleasures without them being hidden,

5. Nor any good in outrage without forgiveness,
Nor any good in forgiveness not followed by unbelief.

6. With each brother in outrage as if his forehead
Were a crescent, surrounded by bright stars,

7. And a tavern girl I awoke after a nap,
While Al Jawza had set and the eagle risen,

8. She said: who is knocking? We said: a gang
Of light-footed ones, for whom wine is sought.

9. It is inevitable they commit adultery, she said. I said: or my life
For one fair like a golden dinar with a slit in its edge.

10. We said to her: bring it here. The like of us,
Our religion does not prevent what we desire.

11. She came with it, like the full moon on a completed night,
Walking proudly with it at dawn, no sorcery in it.

12. We stood, one after the other.
With it, the fast of our estrangement broke.

13. We spent the night, with God seeing the worst of gangs,
Dragging the trains of wickedness, and no pride.