Sol 6.1

  1. وَلائِمَتي يَوماً عَلى ما أَتَت بِهِ

    صُروفُ اللَيالي وَالخُطوبُ القَوارِعُ

    And she reproached me one day for what was wrought by

    the turns of the nights and the battering calamities.

  2. فَقُلتُ لَها فيئي إِلَيكِ وَأَقصِري

    فَأَومُ الفَتى سَيفٌ بِوَصلَيهِ قاطِعُ

    So I said to her, "Come to your senses and desist;

    for a young man's thirst is a sword that cuts through both his joints."

  3. تَلومُ عَلى أَن صَبَّحَ الذِئبُ ضَأنَها

    فَأَلوى بِحُبشٍ وَهوَ في الرَعيِ راتِعُ

    She blames me because the wolf raided her sheep at dawn,

    and made off with Ḥubsh as he grazed freely at pasture.

  4. وَقَد مَرَّ حَولٌ بَعدَ حَولٍ وَأَشهُرٌ

    عَلَيهِ بِبُؤسٍ وَهوَ ظَمآنُ جائِعُ

    And year after year and months had passed

    over him in misery, while he was thirsty and hungry.

  5. فَلَمّا رَأى الإِقدامَ حَزماً وَأَنَّهُ

    أَخو المَوتِ مَن سُدَّت عَلَيهِ المَطالِعُ

    So when he saw boldness as prudence, and that he

    whose ways out are barred is death's brother,

  6. أَغارَ عَلى خَوفٍ وَصادَفَ غِرَّةً

    فَلاقى الَّتي كانَت عَلَيها المَطامِعُ

    he raided in fear and chanced upon an unguarded moment,

    and found what his desires had been fixed upon.

  7. وَما كُنتُ مِضياعاً وَلَكِنَّ هِمَّتي

    سِوى الرَعيِ مَفطوماً وَإِذ أَنا يافِعُ

    And I was no squanderer, but my ambition

    lay beyond shepherding, as a weanling and as a youth.

  8. أَبيتُ أَسومُ النَفسَ كُلَّ عَظيمَةٍ

    إِذا وَطُؤَت بِالمُكثِرينَ المَضاجِعُ

    I pass the night charging my soul with every mighty task,

    when beds grow soft beneath the wealthy.