1. Dubaiya, whom I have not seen since last year,
Amidst the drinking and merriment, he's neither gathered nor wandered.

2. Had he been alive, he'd have visited them in a pasture,
Where partridges abound from Sheeza of Bani Haftif.

3. My ash-colored friend, great in worth, his eyelids
In winter are like the basin of a dripping fountain.

4. He has become desolate and empty, with no companion,
Save for predators, and the wind passing through the rooms.