Whoever holds a cup in hand Fo...

Whoever holds a cup in hand

Forever will rule over the land.

The Water of Life that Elias found

Seek in the tavern where cups stand.

The essence of soul submit to the cup

Rules of the cup are in command.

We and the wine, pious and virtue

Let’s see which ones He will demand.

It is but a word from His lips

For he who has wished and planned.

Narcissus’s ways of drunkenness

Were borrowed from His eye’s gland.

My heart pictures Your face and hair

This prayer my day and night spanned.

It is the painful in the heart

Who Your sweet lips understand.

Your features, Your goodness, O soul,

Like Hafiz, two hundred slaves command.