1. أَلَسْتَ تَرى التَّلَ يُبْدي لَنا

    طَرائِفَ مِنْ صُنْعِ آَذارِهِ

    Do you not see the hill reveal to us

    Wonders wrought by its March,

  2. ويَلْبِسُ مِنْ مانَخايَالَهُ

    حُلِياً عَلى تَلِّ زَمّارِهِ

    And clothe itself, from its Mānakhāyāl,

    In ornaments upon its Zammār hill?

  3. وَقَدْ نَقَّطَ الزَّهْرُ خَدَّ الثَّرى

    بِدِرْهَمِهِ وبِدينارِهِ

    And the blossom has dotted the earth's cheek

    With its dirham and its dinar,

  4. وكَتَّبَ في لازَوَرْدِ الدُّجى

    بِزَنْجَفْرِهِ وبِزِنْجارِهِ

    And written in the lapis lazuli of night

    With its cinnabar and its verdigris.

  5. فلا تُلْقِ كَأْساً بِتأْخيرِها

    ولا يَوْمَ لَهْوٍ بِإِنْظارِهِ

    So do not cast away a cup by delaying it,

    Nor a day of pleasure by postponing it.