1. Intoxication in the intoxicated is dignified in my view
So cast off inhibitions and indulge in revelry

2. And heed not the blamer in your rapture
For accepting blame in drunkenness is shameful

3. It robs the youth of his senses
And his wisdom in gentle moderation

4. Ruby red in the goblet, if it glows
The clink of water in it yellows

5. In a goblet I have, resembling
Only the limpid water and light of day

6. As if the pourer, when he fills it
Mixes together ice and fire

7. So delight in the slain by pleasure, if you are one
Who is familiar with it, and leave off chastity

8. Do you not see the Nile and the morning breeze
Braiding small emeralds in it

9. Especially if the flute trills
Or the silent-bangled hands you the cup

10. And you spend the night plucking ripe fruit
Sweetly dark, and cooled by the dew

11. And a fruitful palm, deadly in its swoon
And a jujube tree, heavy with fruit

12. As if the mole on her cheek in her beauty
Is a night that shows its wing in daylight

13. Whoever is not entertained by this and that
Is, by God, an ass through and through