1. The youth of Sahba are the best drinkers,
Renew with God the pact of the absent ones,

2. And remember me at the goblets of wine,
For I was the leader of addicts.

3. And if a night rouses you,
The call of wine - so rise up altogether!

4. Many a night we made a pact
On what we pledged, and we did it.

5. We spent it, and did not heed what
The noble scribes' hands wrote down.

6. Between goblets and cheer were freed
Breezes, boys and eyes.

7. And servers who clinked their cups -
Some of crystal and some of silver.

8. They quenched from us a thirst like a cat's
Who found a stream wherein was limpid water.

9. So they walked towards us with cup and platter
With the gait of joys for a sorrowful heart.

10. And we leaped up for a conquest -
A beauty of diverse hues pleasing to the beholder.

11. The cupbearer decided to kill her
While she, a virgin, had been chaste for years.

12. But when he saw her chastity
He feared God, Lord of the Worlds, about her.

13. And we passed the goblet amongst ourselves
While staying devoted to Sahba.

14. And we healed the soul of every filth
Whose eyes spoke clear sorcery.

15. And after ecstasy and breast's expansion
Our gathering dispersed with ears' pronouncing God's greatness.

16. Thus we were, in the days of purity,
Seizing pleasures in the precious time.

17. Would that I knew! Do we after the resolve
Have any means to meet again or not?