1. Many a night has one died of distress, without
Attaining respite at dawn in the darkness

2. And the full moon in the Pleiades has related
How the boon companion revives it with narcissus

3. And lightning flashes in the clouds as though it
Were a brilliance scintillating from essence of goblets

4. And the horizon is a hall hung with the morning breeze
Wherefore it is served by maidens with braziers

5. And Mars is like the flame of a candle
Lit and circled by the intimates of the assembly