إزدَدْtake more منَof الرَّاحِwine وَزِدْand take still more
إزدَدْ منَ الرَّاحِ وَزِدْ
فالغَيُّfor going astray فيin الرَّاحِwine رَشَدْright guidance
فالغَيُّ في الرَّاحِ رَشَدْ
Drink more wine, and still more;
The wind blew stronger still
For in wine, going astray is right guidance.
Madness in the wind is wisdom's guide
يُديرُهاpasses it around ذوone with غُنَّةٍa nasal lilt
يُديرُها ذو غُنَّةٍ
أغيدَsupple and graceful يَثنيهِmakes him sway الغَيَدْgraceful suppleness
أغيدَ يَثنيهِ الغَيَدْ
One with a nasal lilt passes it round,
A gifted man controls it
Supple and graceful, swayed by his suppleness.
His chant restrains the storm's wild ride
كأنَّهاas though it were فيin كَفِّهِhis palm
كأنَّها في كَفِّهِ
جَمرَةُan ember نارٍfire تتَّقِدْblazes
جَمرَةُ نارٍ تتَّقِدْ
As though it were, in his palm,
As if cradled in his palms
An ember of fire ablaze.
A glowing ember he applied
مَدَّhe stretched out إليهاtoward it يَدَهhis hand
مَدَّ إليها يَدَه
فالتَهَبَتْso it blazed إلىup to العَضُدْthe upper arm
فالتَهَبَتْ إلى العَضُدْ
He stretched his hand toward it,
When toward it his hand he put
So it blazed up to his upper arm.
It blazed his arms along each side
والجوُّand the sky قدalready كادَتْwas about to ثُرَيْPleiades (word continues)
والجوُّ قد كادَتْ ثُرَيْ
اهُits (also completing 'Pleiades') علىat الغَربِthe west تَرِدarrive
اهُ على الغَربِ تَرِد
And the sky's Pleiades had almost
The atmosphere was charged and thick
Reached the western horizon,
Alas the sun dipped from the west
كأنَّهاas though it were شَابورَةٌa shābūra (a mailwork object; exact form uncertain)
كأنَّها شَابورَةٌ
مُذْهَبَةٌgilded منَof الزَّرَدْmail-links
مُذْهَبَةٌ منَ الزَّرَدْ
As though they were a shābūra,
As if it were a gilded jug
Gilded, made of mail-links.
Inlaid with gemstones of the best
Sol 6.1