Behold the man drunken with that marvellous (earthly) wine: the drunken man has begun to move crookedly like the queen (in chess).2095
مست را بین زان شراب پرشگفت ** هم‌چو فرزین مست کژ رفتن گرفت
From (the effect of) that quickly-catching wine the (vigorous) youth is falling in the middle of the road, like an aged man.
مرد برنا زان شراب زودگیر ** در میان راه می‌افتد چو پیر
Especially (consider the effect of) this (spiritual) wine which is from the jar of Balá—not the wine whereof the intoxication lasts (only) one night;
خاصه این باده که از خم بلی است ** نه میی که مستی او یکشبیست
(But) that (wine) from which, (by drinking it) at dessert and in migration (from place to place), the Men of the Cave (the Seven Sleepers) lost their reason for three hundred and nine years.
آنک آن اصحاب کهف از نقل و نقل ** سیصد و نه سال گم کردند عقل
The women of Egypt drank one cup of that (wine) and cut their hands to pieces.
زان زنان مصر جامی خورده‌اند ** دستها را شرحه شرحه کرده‌اند