| Joseph Friedlander, comp. The Standard Book of Jewish Verse. 1917. | | | | Wine Song | | By Judah Al-Harizi (Trans. I. A.) |
| | | DEAR friend, beneath this spreading tree | |
| Where flitting shadows come and go, | |
| With myrtles crowned and roses we | |
| The joys of wine will freely know. | |
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| Drink wisdom in with every draught, | 5 |
| In wine shalt thou discover here | |
| Thy inner fires, thy mental craft, | |
| Increasing with each passing year. | |
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| The thousand years of this our earth | |
| To God are but short lasting hours; | 10 |
| A moment’s death, a moment’s birth, | |
| To God is one long year of ours. | |
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| Ah! would that I might live and laugh | |
| Through one God-year a thousand fold; | |
| That I, forever young might quaff | 15 |
| Oceans of wine that e’er grows old. | | | | |
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