Love wine as i love

The ability to drink is not given to everyone,
Drinking is an art.
He is not smart who drinks wine
Without thought and without feeling.

Wine carries poison and honey
And slavery and freedom.
The price of wine does not know the one
Who drinks it like water!

Love wine as I love
Do not repent of your love,
Do not be arrogant in the drunkenness
But don't go down either.

Some wine attracts to flight,
Others are knocked down on the move.
The price of wine does not know the one
Who drinks it like water!

Gives birth to heady juice in us
And whim and revelation.
In it is the source of creation
And the lust for destruction.

Wine does not give indulgence
To those who please him
Sometimes he doesn't take care of himself
Who drinks wine like water!

Mirza Shafi Vazeh. Translated by N. Grebnev