Chanama

Give me tea, O Saqi, and let there be no delay;
let me have it bitter, if milk and sugar are not at hand.
Had Jamshid taken a draught from this pot,
his slow-beating pulse would have run like deer.
Have you heard the boiling kettle of tea cry bagg bagg?
Verily you would say it was Mansur shouting ana al-haqq.
There is a reference in the Book of God
Bread to eat and tea to drink
~ lines from Chanama (“A Tea Poem”) of Mulla Hamidullah ‘Hamid’, (d.1848) Persian poet of Shahabad, Kashmir.

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