1. I have chosen for my pleasures
To fill my cups and plates,

2. And the coolness of dark gloom when
The rainclouds wet it,

3. To water the days of my joy when
Good fortune favors my times,

4. We sit drinking bitter coffee
To the tunes of pipes and flutes,

5. From the palm of a slender-waisted beauty,
Dressed in a gown of splendors,

6. So the Merciful Lord of the High Heavens
Has blessed the days of Nizar with delights.