وأغيدُ يشكو خصرهُ جورَ رِدفه

وأغيدُ يشكو خصرهُ جورَ رِدفه

ويُمسي بليلِ الشعرِ وهوَ يعاتبه

ويُمسي بليلِ الشعرِ وهوَ يعاتبه

And a supple youth—his waist complains of his rump’s tyranny,

The camel complains of the burden upon its back,

and spends the evening in the night of his hair, reproaching it:

And reproaches the long night with verses of woe,

يشَّبع ذا لحماً وذا باتَ جائِعاً

يشَّبع ذا لحماً وذا باتَ جائِعاً

وشبع الفتى لؤمٌ إذا جاعَ صاحبه

وشبع الفتى لؤمٌ إذا جاعَ صاحبه

This one is sated with flesh, while that one has spent the night hungry;

One is stuffed to the full while another sleeps hungry,

and it is ignoble for a youth to be sated when his companion goes hungry.

When the youth is replete it is base if his friend goes unfed.