1. Forget the abode you drew and the heights,
And abandon this land you tread and home.

2. Have you seen an abode answer back,
Or respond to one questioning and pleading?

3. Drink it as if it were a rooster's eye
Whose taste dispels sorrow and dissolves pain.

4. When it seeped into my veins
Sorrow quickly bid farewell to my heart.

5. With an aiding, unfailing drinking mate
Wherever you inclined, he inclined with you.

6. It wore him out with pure wine,
Till it dripped down his brow soothingly.

7. I said, as the break of dawn appeared,
Piercing the dark night's veil:

8. He complained of the wine's intensity upon him
And leaned back to take just a little.

9. I said: rouse yourself to spare me from all ills
And face the morn embraced.

10. He said: take it so complaint may cease
And by it the wine's life comes to an end.

11. He sat upright and held out a palm
That never stopped serving palms.

12. And he sang thrice of the wine,
Chiding the eye for weeping at past heights.