1. Greetings, O rain cloud that pours down
I have yearnings like a garden in bloom

2. Cool my passion and restore my vigor
Renew its garment, for the garment is worn

3. You remind me of a beautiful woman of the past
But the vows of the daughters of joy have no constancy

4. Yet old love ceases to haunt her
While you urge me to indulge it anew

5. So I respond, urged irresistibly
A pleasing companion, O irresistible urge!

6. None but the noble have shared drink with me
The generous, in whose eyes is no vileness

7. Of the thirty portions I have had my two-thirds
Without greed, leaving the last for late comers

8. Come, boon companion, fill up the cups!
Break the seals, for cares are many

9. You relax if you allow it to flow
And let the goblets breathe into the veins

10. How can one live who does not drink it?
That life for the wakeful is useless pain

11. I found happiness tranquilized within it
While fools fruitlessly probe and search

12. So I sent greetings to the son of Hani
And from his generosity and verse comes my heritage

13. Dead drunk with it, to live sober again
For this death holds awakening from death