سَقِّني الأسكركعَ الصِّنْ

بِرَ في جَعْضَلفونِهْ

Give me to drink al-askarkuʿ al-ṣin—

bir, in its jaʿḍalfīn.

واجعل الفَيْجَنَ في الأفْ

واهِ منه بغُصونِهْ

And place rue in its mou—

ths—some of it, branches and all.

إنّه مِصفْاةُ أعلا

هُ وعِطرٌ لبُطونه

For at its to—

p is a strainer, and perfume for its insides.

وليكن من صنعةِ الكو

فيِّ غريد زُبونه

And let it be the work of the Ku—

fan, whose customer is a songster.

واطبُخِ الدِّباء والحِي

راب لوناً بمُتونه

And cook the gourds and the ḥī—

rāb, with color across its broad surfaces.

إنه يستنقذ المجْ

نونَ من داء جُنونه

For it rescues the mad—

man from the malady of his madness.

واطبُخَنْ لي اللبنَ الرا

ئب لوناً بلَبُونه

And cook me milk, curd—

led—colored by its labūn (perhaps its “milkiness”).

ومن السِّكباجِ فاطبخْ

لِيَ ثوراً بقرونِه

And from the sikbāj, cook

for me a bull, horns and all.