1. When people delight in what they gather,
I delight in what the notebook gathers.

2. It has my passion and my pleasure—
The cup, though the cup does not appear.

3. It revolves around drinking, praised,
With supply, streaming, flowing.

4. The charmer of the two curled mustaches sings to them
Like the morning sun, its glance languid.

5. Their basil is the fragrance of their good morals,
And they have roses and perfumed dust.

6. Yet our ambition is in letters—
That is the craft and the merchandise.