1. Give me the cup and soothe the heart's meaning,
For passion is gentle and the voice of the singer is melodious.

2. Give me a cup, take a cup, and leave what
Has preoccupied the ascetic here and there.

3. Invite her to drink from its cups,
For we have built up over time and then returned.

4. We drank the wine in its tavern,
And it softened speech and meaning for us.

5. We slaughtered its declension with Ibn Ghammaam,
And sacrificed the daughter of Zarjoon for her sake.

6. We disputed it with the eyes of a young gazelle,
Who glanced at it and lent it an ear.

7. We gathered in the shade of the oak,
Then dispersed after our solitude and pairs.

8. We draw the fragrance and how much scent
Has wafted from it onto the meadow we inhaled.

9. In it we sang the melodies to a gazelle
Who inclined towards dunes and valleys.

10. In the garden of sadness sprang a spring
Whose rushing waters embraced its banks.

11. It gushed in the lap of vine leaves, eager
As the vines leaned over to nurse it in clusters.

12. The ostriches toyed with it until provoked
The eyes of the narcissi to blink.

13. The drum of thunder beat loudly
Raising its flags over the land it conquered.

14. Whenever the rain wept at the edge,
The lightning smiled and winked back at it.

15. O changer of the noble, untainted saliva,
And changer of the pure, immaculate eye!

16. O rival of the rising moon in face,
And competitor of the sun in brilliance and beauty!

17. Your cheeks are like the smooth, curving spear shaft
That straightens every time the spear inclines.

18. To build your singing-house in the sand suffices me -
My heart is your singing-house, O gazelle of the sand!

19. My heart has no joy in my own happiness
Since the gum trees arrived at Laban.

20. You have a languorous eye - if not for
Its glance, the sword would not have drawn the scabbard.

21. I have gained nothing from being near it except that I
Was given a burden while it gained distinction.

22. Just as the bunches of Sifa gained
An auspicious marriage to the blessed Yemen.

23. They are the fruits of the blossoming tree which
Only bestows its prime produce to be picked.

24. Branches it watered so its unions
Hung with fruit, branch after branch.

25. Every branch it put forth from its roots
Elevated an edifice to the highest honor.

26. A disposition in which no blame can be found -
I am to it in that as I am.

27. And a generosity that never resembled
One who is stingy - and the young man is as we are.

28. As the young man was, so too was the elder -
Whether valiant, truthful, or skilled.

29. Tell the one who judged it otherwise than us:
"You have judged not from experience, but from supposition."

30. It gives its all with its staff,
And doubly compensates the redness of bodies with bodies.

31. A critic, if he is generous, enriches generosity,
Just as heavy rain, when generous, enriches.

32. It contained ambitions it harbored
Other than attaining glory, if our cheeks were not satisfied.

33. What you declared about the excellence of traits is true -
Today, who is the father that is nicknamed "Virtuous"?

34. He ceaselessly strikes the ears of the adversary with poetry
Whose impact resounded from him with life's blows.

35. A tongue that pulls out tongues with speech,
Vicious to tongues, if they dare to be impudent.

36. He related the sheer sublime from his grandfather,
And from him we related the sheer sublime.

37. He handed down the religion with what - if paired -
With his pearls, his night would claim to outshine the meteors.

38. My words failed to fully express it,
So leave speech and take the meaning of the pearls.