1. I stayed up late, did the star of darkness stay up?
The valleys flow with dew and lightning,

2. And after the prohibition, the words of a speaker excite me,
"One who watered with lightning by the side of the deep canyon."

3. Fate refused joy, even if
The youth approached it or attained it, he is a thief.

4. Is today not but rising then setting?
Or the night not but setting then rising?

5. The palaces of Chosroes, when have they been violated?
And Caesar, did his numerous armies not protect him?

6. And he grows old in the days, he whose life is long,
So with the length of survival, parting grows old.

7. It erased the friendships of youth from the page of his gray hair
So it would be empty of the color of departed youth.

8. And it continued to hate drinking from cups
When the winds roused it to drink.

9. They will be covered with dust in it, their bodies folded,
And rightly furnishing it are their beddings and pavilions.

10. And it resembles Ka'b when he wept and Mutammim
At the side of every mind a praised and gifted one.

11. The like of the daughter of Jawn whose affair
Is the weeping of her voice, the inspirer of elegies.