1. The dawn heralded the morning with its charm,
As the rooster announced hope with its crowing.

2. It sang sweetly atop the garden wall,
Flapping and clapping its wings.

3. Begin your morning early, delay no more
Lest sluggish be your leaving.

4. Verily dawn releases all intoxicants—
Its gleaming cup brings joy each morning.

5. Laughter and jest bubbles forth from sweet lips,
A noble host of mirth and rhyme.

6. I awakened him as night still gripped him fast,
And hastily did I remove his covers.

7. “Bring me the lantern” cried he out. I replied—
Enough, enough the lantern’s glow!

8. Instead, within the glass I poured a drink—
Coffee to greet the cock’s refrain.

9. The potion came too soon, mixed too fast,
So attire did the brewer lend.

10. The fragrance rose and moved his heart—
Its scent brought apples bounteous.

11. A yellow seductress of souls, that spares—
No tender flesh from clawing scars

12. It kept you, as time told tales secretly
Until boredom made him share confessions,

13. A storehouse of secrets now laid bare—
But for weariness, never told at all.

14. It came to you in shapes worn by age
That he swiftly renews, as specters ethereal.

15. So that, as the cup shines, bright within,
The morn draws nigh, clear and crisp.