Sulafu danni, ka-shamsi dajni, ka-dam’i jafni, ka-khamri ’adni! Tabikhu shamsi, ka-lawni warsi, rabibu Fursi halifu sijni! Ra’aytu ’ilja bi-Baturunja: la-ha tawajja fa-lam yuthanni. Hatta tabaddat wa-qad tasaddat la-na, wa-mallat hulula danni! Fahat bi-rihi ka rihi shihi, yawma sabuhi wa ghayma dajni. Yasqi-ka saqi, ’ala ’shtiyaqi, ila-t-talaqi bima-i muzni. Yudiru tarfa, Yu’iru hatfa, Idha takaffa Mina-t-tutthani… Wine of jar bright, sun of black night, tear of the eyes, wine of Paradise! Sun globe of yore, yellow hellebore, eye of a Persian cast into prison! I saw a savage come from my village: the jar he struck with one blow he cracked. Forth burst the wine incarnadine, mellower far aged in the jar. Aromas wafted of wormwood in flower, for freedrinkers crafted, under skies a-glower. An evil brew This wineboy pours you: water from rain with wine entrained. He flashes a wink, a lethal drink! and as he saunters your mind wanders… Read a short biography of Abu Nuwas, with links.  Find out who painted this image. Click on it. Abu Nuwas, Le Vin, le Vent, la Vie, (tr. Vincent Mansour Monteil), Sindbad, Paris, 1979, p. 72. Abu Nuwas