1. Pure wine, drawn from the juice of grapes—

    O friend—is the sweetest thing ever drunk:

  2. wine that shows you, when it is mixed,

    within the cup, a chain of gold.

  3. It was matured by time’s fire, not

    by the fire of fierce burning and flame.

  4. Let your drinking of it not be barred by

    the month of Muharram or Rajab.

  5. And seize your time—for indeed it

    truly plunders the youth of your life.

Sol 5.6