بروحي نديم تشهد الراح أنه

بروحي نديم تشهد الراح أنه

قضى العمر باللذات وهو خبير

قضى العمر باللذات وهو خبير

With my soul I would ransom a drinking companion; wine bears witness that he

My soul is a companion that bears witness to the wind

Spent his life in pleasures, well versed in them.

That he spent his life in pleasures, for he was wise

تذكر مزج الكأس عند وفاته

تذكر مزج الكأس عند وفاته

فأوصى لها بالثلث وهو كثير

فأوصى لها بالثلث وهو كثير

He remembered mixing the wine-cup at the hour of his death,

Recall the pouring of wine at his death

So he bequeathed it a third—and a third is much.

So he bequeathed a third of it, which was plentiful