1. With a cup like a flood of intimacy its radiance overwhelmed me,
And my life from this radiant drink,

2. In a garden established for us by your full moons,
And in it the flies buzzed around attentively,

3. When we drink our cup, its excess overflows
Onto our garden for the broken-off listener,

4. As if the rain clouds married the ground
And the land's flowers bloomed in every place,

5. Gardens that make the gazelles laugh after
The eye of the sky cried over them with clouds,

6. As if the land's joy is the grief of its clouds
When it cries, it smiles at us with affectation,

7. Beloved ones who allow nothing but a glance
And a breath's sniff for the impassioned lover,

8. Marvels is what the vizier Ibnanah gifted
To his authority, only he brought us the most wondrous,

9. For in his hand were five that equaled five,
As if each finger had a man upon it,

10. Aiyas, Bustam, Hatim al-Tai,
Ahnaf in wisdom, and Ibn al-Muqaffa',