Come, come, awaken all true drunkards! Pour the wine that is Life itself!
O cupbearer of the Eternal Wine, Draw it now from Eternity’s Jar!
This wine doesn’t run down the throat but it looses torrents of words!
Cupbearer, make my soul fragrant as musk, this noble soul of mine that
knows the Invisible! Pour out the wine for the morning drinkers! Pour
them this subtle and priceless musk! Pass it around to everyone in the
assembly in the cups of your blazing drunken eyes! Pass a philter from
your eyes to everyone else’s in a way the mouth knows nothing of, for
this is the way cupbearers always offer the holy and mysterious wine to
lovers. Hurry, the eyes of every atom in Creation are famished for this
flaming-out of splendour! Procure for yourself this fragrance of musk and
with it split open the breast of heaven! The waves of the fragrance of
this musk drive all Josephs out of their minds forever!
