1. Awaken to wine and cup
Its tormentor brews its potion

2. And drink to a flower and myrtle
But to the cheek and coyness

3. O friend, how often we see you awake
From the rapture of love and passion

4. Passing the brook of dawn
Flooding the camp of darkness

5. The flowers smile with buds
When the raincloud weeps

6. And the leaves shake off drowsiness
Spreading beauty on the meadows

7. The rose struts in its garb
Among myrtle and jasmine

8. Arise, and the brown-eyed one
Will serve you coffee

9. And look upon the slender waists and brows
Rising above the moon in the branches

10. Drink at ease, well-satiated
For the joy of life is in revelry

11. And remind the heart, for it forgets
With the strumming of lute and beat of drum

12. And seize the drink in the goblet
For the days of life are few

13. How beautiful is companionship with the beautiful ones
And the wind making its hills transparent

14. As if it were the gardens of delights
Stripped of their veils

15. Time left nothing in the cup
Except its bubbles

16. I do not forget to drink it
Nor have patience at sipping it

17. I followed Abu Nuwas in it
And none are soberer than the brewers