نبه الليل بالوجيف ولا تو

نبه الليل بالوجيف ولا تو

لع بدار الهوان بالأغماض

لع بدار الهوان بالأغماض

Rouse the night with swift trotting, and do not grow

The night awoke with darkness, do not blame it

fond of closing your eyes in the abode of humiliation.

It took shelter in the house of disgrace, in deep sorrow

وأقر ضيف الهموم كل أمون

وأقر ضيف الهموم كل أمون

عنتريس وباز شرواض

عنتريس وباز شرواض

And entertain the guest of cares with every trusty she-camel,

And settled the guest of worries, every shelter

sturdy and strong, and a mature camel, tall and massive.

Intertwined, and Paz a rover

أنقذتني من الردى وطأتي البي

أنقذتني من الردى وطأتي البي

د ونقص الهموم بالأنقاض

د ونقص الهموم بالأنقاض

I was saved from death by my treading the

You saved me from ruin, and trod my hand

deserts, and by easing cares with travel-worn camels.

And reduced worries into rubble

شكلها كتالقسي وهي سهامٌ

شكلها كتالقسي وهي سهامٌ

للفلا والرغاء كالأنباض

للفلا والرغاء كالأنباض

Their forms are like bows, yet they are arrows

It looks like a bow, and it is arrows

for the wilderness, and their bellowing is like bowstrings twanging.

For entertainment and joy like fountains

خلتها حين خاضت الليل سبحا

خلتها حين خاضت الليل سبحا

غمست من دجاه في خضخاض

غمست من دجاه في خضخاض

I imagined them, as they swam through the night,

You left it when it crossed the night swimming

immersed in a mire of its darkness.

It dipped from its darkness in turmoil

صدعت عرمض الدياجر حتى

صدعت عرمض الدياجر حتى

كرعت في ماء الصباح المفاض

كرعت في ماء الصباح المفاض

They cleaved the algal scum of darkness until

It cracked the armor of darkness until

they drank from the outpoured water of morning,

It nibbled in the water of the flowing dawn

حين راع الظلام وخط مشيب

حين راع الظلام وخط مشيب

قد سرى في سواده ببياض

قد سرى في سواده ببياض

when a streak of gray hair startled the darkness,

When the darkness shepherded and a gray line

having crept through its blackness with whiteness.

Had spread in its blackness with whiteness