1. Do not weep, O Layla, nor yearn for India,
And drink rose-red wine like a rose's hue.

2. A cup, when it flows down a drinker's throat,
Finds its redness in his eye and cheek.

3. So wine is a ruby and the cup a pearl
From the palm of a slender-waisted girl.

4. She gives you wine to drink from her eyes,
And from her hand wine - so what need have you of two intoxications?

5. I have two raptures while the revellers have but one -
Something I was singled out for, from among them, uniquely.