Youth, loveliking and dalliance And wine of ruby hue;
Fast friends in private gathered, Companions fit and few;

Minstrel sweet-voiced and singer And skinker sugar-lipped;
Comrades right kind and lovesome And cup-companions true;

Lovelings, for very sweetness, The envy of Life's fount;
Charmers, for grace and beauty That make the full moon rue;

A banquet-place heart-taking As topmost Paradise,
In roses bow'red, such roses As feed on heaven's dew;

The general guests well-willing And nobly bred the chiefs;
The hosts adépt and comrades The topers' wish unto;

Wine brisk and bright and bitter, Delectable and light;
Its zest the loveling's ruby And talk of liquor new;

The fair one's tress snare-spreading, To take withal the heart;
The skinker's glance sword-drawing, The reason to undo;

A world-enlight'ning teacher Of bounty like Kiwám;
A wit like sweet-tongued Hafiz Amid the jovial crew;

Whoso this joyance shunneth, To him be life forbid!
This converse who escheweth May heart's content eschew!