1. يا حارِ يا ذا البِرِّ والشِّيَمِ

    العِذابِ المستَساغَه

    O Har, O possessor of kindness and noble traits,

    sweet and pleasing.

  2. اعذُر أخاكَ فليس من

    تِلكَ الرَّفاهة والرَّفاغَه

    Excuse your brother, for he has no share

    in that comfort and abundance.

  3. ما العيشُ إلا بُلغَةٌ

    وأَخوك لا يَعدُو بَلاغَه

    Life is nothing but sustenance,

    and your brother goes no further than what suffices him.

  4. ولقد رحلتُ بِسُحرَةٍ

    واللّيلَ يُلبسُنِي صِباغَه

    And indeed I set out before dawn,

    while night clothed me in its dye.

  5. وشَوى المطيّةِ في خِضا

    بٍ ظلّ يُلثِمُنِي رزاغَه

    And the mount's limbs were steeped in dye,

    whose wet mud kept kissing me.

  6. مُتحرّساً متمرّساً

    بطريدة العيشِ المرَاغَه

    Guarding myself, grappling

    with livelihood's sought-after quarry.

  7. والعجزُ أن طالت يَدِي

    وتَقاصَرَت لابن المراغَه

    And helplessness is that my hand reached far,

    yet fell short before Ibn al-Maragha.

  8. وأنا الّذي علمت معدٌّ

    في الفصاحةِ والبلاغه

    And I am the one Maʿadd has known

    for clarity of speech and eloquence.

  9. إن كانَ عَطَّلَ مشهدي

    دهري وألزمني فراغه

    If my arena has been left idle

    by my fate, which has imposed its idleness on me,

  10. فلقد عمرت بكل ما

    يُخزيه فُندقَهُ وباغَه

    then indeed I have filled—with all

    that shames it—its inn and its garden.