1. Do not weep after the parting of friends
And break the spell of sorrow with your tears

2. When you see it submit to its constitution
Restrain your hands with chastity and shyness

3. With an intoxicant kings have bowed down before
Too exalted to be named explicitly

4. A brazen one who recalls Adam and his Seth
And tells the tales of Eve unabashed

5. Nature molded her in the form of aquamarine
Dazzling with the wonders of lights

6. So wine in us is like crimson silk
And the cup a white sapphire

7. The goblet laughs like a gazelle glorifying
At the bow with a lisp of wonder

8. And it's as if when the glass decanters flow
Amid the darkness, they are stars in the Zodiac

9. They're brought by one born of limping Japheth
Like a rod atop the udder of an immaculate she-camel

10. And a lad more docile than any you've seen
When elated, sang of grace and propriety

11. Passion clung to the ropes of the disheveled one
While death clutched the ropes of desires