1. I descended from a night like the shadow of pebbles,
A night like the shadow of a lance when it is thrust.

2. And man's reason battles the events of fate
That are to come.

3. And I knew well that drinking three cups
Is an antidote to urgent anxiety and grief.

4. So drink to the horn of time, and do not die
In endless regret over it.

5. And look upon a springtime world that has come
Like women displaying themselves for adulterers.

6. And when dawn disrobes itself of its camphor,
The kinds of birds speak in tongues.

7. And the roses laugh from narcissus glances.
Ransomed, their love proclaimed death.

8. So the old vegetation is crowned with wheat ears
With tender green spikes.

9. And the yellow truffles as large as forces,
So for every land there is a season for life.

10. Thus their hands when night falls
Probe the appointed time for turbans.

11. And the ravens of decadence in what they pretended
Eat the flesh of the land in haste.

12. And the rain sheds tears every evening
For clouds of a day not girded with any blessing.

13. And you see the winds when they erase its pond
They rendered it smooth and swept away every mote.

14. There remains on it a raging gazelle
Like a lovely woman's looking in the mirror.

15. And herons rowing on it with feet
That alighted on it with repeated motions.

16. You would think them a pasture amidst still water,
As if they were whistling with reeds.

17. And the nightingale sings merrily in its plains
From the melodious trilling of youth.

18. O companion, dawn has appeared so pass the wine,
The redness of morning shone in the darknesses.

19. And the wind made love at the secrets of the dew,
And the basil breathed in the gardens.

20. Intercede with the cupbearer’s hand and goodness of his water
At dusk and dawn intoxicated.

21. And the lover of motions is all sweetness
When savored in trysts that were among the separated.

22. He still walks swaying
With sashes of tinkling silver.

23. As if bearing a chiming tambourine
At a refined party of constant rapture.

24. I asked him for promises, and he kept them,
At a visit that was one of the wasted.