1. Turn away from the ruined abode and from the passion
Of describing the dwellings and depicting the goblet of wine

2. Leave the Bedouin and her woes behind
To one accustomed to misery, forlorn and dejected

3. And head for the banks of Euphrates, and give me
Before dawn, defying all the hostile and hateful

4. A yellow one, telling of ripe dates in her palms
Bracelets of pearls scattered and disjoined

5. I will drink despite the enviers with joy and mirth
The daughter of vineyards, despite the spites of the envious

6. Like a gazelle, with the clarity of a lovely face
Pale, averting the blackness of ugly sins

7. She glanced coyly, and between her lids
Were teardrops pouring or about to pour

8. Fearing they would flow, she raised her lids
So the tears were between descending and ascending