1. صَحَوتَ وَأَوقَدتَ لِلجَهلِ ناراً

    وَرَدَّ عَلَيكَ الصِبا ما اِستَعارا

    You came to your senses and kindled a fire for folly.

    And youth returned to you what it had borrowed.

  2. وَأَصبَحتَ بَسلا عَلى كاعِبٍ

    أَشارَت بِكَفٍّ وَهَزَّت سِوارا

    And you became forbidden to a budding-breasted maiden

    Who gestured with her hand and shook a bracelet.