Poem #478

Drink deep the heavy cup, the brimming measure

and root out grief with wine's abundant pleasure.

Open your heart like the wide jar of wine;

Why seal it up like miser's clay design?

Drink till the Self dissolves in ecstasy;

Boast not of 'I'—let ego cease to be.

Be firm as stone upon the path of right;

Flee shifting waters and their colors bright.

Bind heart to wine! Be manly, bold, and free,

and break the neck of false hypocrisy.

Rise like Hafez! Strive with all your might;

Cast yourself before the Source of Light.