1. قَد آنَ أَن تَصحُوَ أَو تُقصِر

    وقَد أَتَى لِمَا عَهِدتَ عُصُر

    It is time you sobered—or held yourself back

    —ages have overtaken what you once knew—

  2. عَن مُبرِقاتٍ بالبُرينَ وتَب

    دُو بالأَكُفِّ الَّلامعِاتِ سُوُر

    from the radiant women at al-Barayn; and there ap—

    —pear bracelets upon their gleaming wrists:

  3. بِيضٌ عليهنَّ الدِّمَقسُ وبِال

    أَعناقِ مِن تَحتِ الأَكُفَّةِ دُر

    fair women, robed in fine dimāqs silk; and at their—

    —necks, beneath their collars, are pearls.