1. Yes, I stayed up late with the cup and lute companions,
And the night kept awake the eyes of flowers and blossoms.

2. O you who sleep the night, what did you miss, o sleeper,
Of the pleasure the eye buys with staying up?

3. There must be between pleasure and displeasure some waking
That turns the night between long and short.

4. And you, my moon, I must have you even if
You built your house for me in the moon's orbit.

5. O life's resort, its resorter did not leave it
Untainted, nor did he abandon it to turbidity.

6. I said to the gazelle when he passed the wine,
"This is what the gazelle of wine did not know."

7. If he sleeps, I visit a fantasy, he wraps a belt
Or walks proudly, and if his pace falters, I reproach.