سَقِّ أبا جعفرِ الدِّمَشْقِيّا

صِرْفاً كَلونِ الخدودِ وردِيَّا

Pour Abu Ja'far al-Dimashqi

Red wine like the hue of cheeks.

أما ترى السُكرَ كيف نازَعَه

عقلاً يُرِيه صَوابَه غيَّا

Don't you see how drunkenness wrestles his reason,

Showing him the right way in vain.

كأنّه والكؤوس تَحفِزُه

ظبيٌ رأى خَلْفَه سَلُوقيّا

As if he and the goblets exciting him

Were a gazelle who saw hunters behind him.