1. Pass around, O friend, the cups of wine.

    And take to recklessness, and turn away from decorum.

  2. And rise, seizing the opportunities of the nights.

    And pass from the small to the large.

  3. For in the season of spring—and what a season!—

    casting off the bridle delights the discerning.

  4. For in that season, upon the moringa trees, sang the

    doves, the bulbuls, and the turtledoves.

  5. So quench with the fire of your wine the fire of my sorrow,

    for light extinguishes every fire.

  6. If we abstain from drinking wine

    that gladdens us by night or by day,

  7. then this life of ours has no delight,

    and our home, this world, is no home.

Sol 6.1