قمrise ياO غلامُboy فهاتهاthen bring it
قم يا غلامُ فهاتها
حمراءَred فالتفاحُfor the apple أحمرred
حمراءَ فالتفاحُ أحمر
Rise, boy, and bring it,
Rise, my boy, and bring it to me
Red—for the apple is red;
Red, for the apple is red
قانٍcrimson كخدّكَlike your cheek بينamid ريَbasil (first fragment)
قانٍ كخدّكَ بين ريَ
حانٍbasil (continuation) كعارضِكَlike your sideburn المسطَّرneatly traced
حانٍ كعارضِكَ المسطَّر
Crimson as your cheek, amid sweet
As red as your cheek amidst the meadows
basil, like your neatly traced sideburn.
As smooth as your sculpted brow
فكأنّهاso, as though it والمزجُand the dilution يُلبclothes (first fragment)
فكأنّها والمزجُ يُلب
بسُclothes (continuation) رأسَهاits head إكليلَa circlet جوهرjewels
بسُ رأسَها إكليلَ جوهر
So it is as though, while dilution clothes
As though it were, with its blend, a bud
its head in a circlet of jewels,
Crowning its head with a bejeweled wreath
بَدرُfull moon الدُّجىdarkness صاغتfashioned لهfor it الthe
بَدرُ الدُّجى صاغت له ال
أفلاكُcelestial spheres نجمَstars (collectively) الجوِّof the sky مِغفَرa mail helmet
أفلاكُ نجمَ الجوِّ مِغفَر
it were the full moon of darkness, for which the
The full moon of nightfall molded it
celestial spheres fashioned the sky’s stars into a mail helmet.
The spheres formed the absolving star’s gem
وكأنَّand as though كفَّthe hand مُديرِهاthe one passing it around
وكأنَّ كفَّ مُديرِها
منfrom لونِيmy hue القانيcrimson مُعصَفرَsafflower-dyed
من لونِي القاني مُعصَفرَ
And as though the hand of the one passing it around
As though the palm of its turner
were safflower-dyed by my crimson hue.
Were, from my red wine's hue, saffronized
Sol 6.1