1. My life, do you see the gleaming light
Of broad front with swaying motion?

2. I sat down for it one evening to perceive it
With bitterness and my friends in coats of mail

3. And from it, with its revolution, a gleam as though it were
Far off, a cup overflowing with goblets

4. So I said to them when I saw its flashing
To let the people of commotion quench their thirst

5. Tribes of Ka’b bin ‘Amr as though they
When gathered one day, humps of the rugged valley

6. Their lower parts girt with valleys, so the youths
And dwellings of their farthest parts with honey, so clear