1. Wine alone is my remedy, so how could
You refuse to provide me with my remedy?

2. Let it be pure, so when an eye beholds it,
It revels in its clarity.

3. It resembles air in the delicacy of its essence—
No, it goes beyond the essence of air.

4. Its hue clothes the vessel with radiance.
It is the vessel’s outward appearance through the vessel.

5. It resembles a virgin’s spittle in color,
And in flux, in the bowl of a virgin’s mouth.

6. And the cheek of a loved one—her lover smells it
In the negligence of the overseers.