1. Many a white-haired drunkard
I gave wine to drink

2. Visited me secretly and openly
After he had prayed and fasted

3. After I had been one who spends his time
Judging others and living virtuously

4. We talked and whispered intimately
Embracing tightly

5. I said “Go ahead and mix
Good with evil and transgressions”

6. But he refused and held back
Then handed me the reins

7. He said to me when I leaned
Against him as he slept

8. “What do you think of my height and width?”
I said “Stop this talk”

9. “My falcon is a falcon of the air
That takes down mighty birds

10. It hunts nothing but
The wild donkeys and ostriches of fate”

11. “We have winked at each other for a long time
And gathered as boys do”

12. “And we drank one day
The dregs of the wine”

13. “And so I do with my dear moon
So I am never blamed”

14. “I never give forbidden
Except what is forbidden”