譬如朝露，去日苦多。
慨當以慷，憂思難忘。
何以解憂？唯有杜康。
Here before us, wine and song!
For man does not live long.
Like daybreak dew,
His days are swiftly gone.
Sanguine-souled we have to be!
Though painful memory haunted us yet.
Thoughts and sorrows naught allays,
Save the cup Du Kang first set.