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My master, I don't think

سيدي ما أظنه

1. My master, I don't think
He knows anymore what has happened

١. سيدي ما أظنه
بعد يدري بما جرى

2. He doesn't know that his servant
Has just become tattered

٢. ما درى أن عبده
فلسه قد تقشرا

3. Among people well known for their kindness
Yet he has become a stranger

٣. عند قومٍ معروفهم
في قد صار منكرا

4. I was like musk once
Bought with gold coins

٤. كنتُ كالمسك مرةً
بالدنانير أشتري

5. But today, after
Becoming an old man, as you see

٥. فأنا اليوم بعد ما
صرت شيخاً كما ترى

6. A servant of He who has a Prophet
If he is red, it is

٦. عبدُ من عنده نبي
ذٌ إذا كان أحمرا

7. Wine whose baseness exceeds
Musk and ambergris

٧. خمرةٌ دنُّها يض
من مسكاً وعنبرا

8. How many mouths it has made happy
And they were sober before

٨. كم فمٍ ذاقها فطا
ب وقد كان أبخرا

9. And a boy with his cup
Went about at dawn

٩. وغلامٍ بكأسها
راح يسعى وبكرا

10. Its fragrance to us
Is a perfumed scent

١٠. هو فينا بريحها
عبق قد تعطرا

11. It remained potent while we
Thought it had evaporated

١١. ظل يفسو وعندنا
أنه قد تبخرا