صِلني لَكَ الخَيرُ بِرُمّانَةٍ

صِلني لَكَ الخَيرُ بِرُمّانَةٍ

لَم تَنتَقِل عَن كَرَمِ العَهدِ

لَم تَنتَقِل عَن كَرَمِ العَهدِ

Favor me—may good be yours—with a pomegranate;

Connect me for you with goodness through a pomegranate

you have not forsaken your long-standing generosity.

That did not move away from the vineyard of the covenant

لاعِنَباً أَمتَصُّ عُنقودَهُ

لاعِنَباً أَمتَصُّ عُنقودَهُ

ثَدياً كَأَنّي بَعدُ في المَهدِ

ثَدياً كَأَنّي بَعدُ في المَهدِ

Not grapes, whose cluster I would suck

Not a grape cluster whose neck I suckle

as a breast, as though I were still in the cradle.

A breast as though after that I'm still in the cradle

وَهَل يَرى بَينَهُما نِسبَةً

وَهَل يَرى بَينَهُما نِسبَةً

مَن عَدَلَ الخِصيَةَ بِالنَهدِ

مَن عَدَلَ الخِصيَةَ بِالنَهدِ

And does he see any likeness between the two—

And can one see between the two a relationship

he who has equated a testicle with a breast?

Who equated the testicle with the breast