يا أخا الرشا والغزلان — Omar Onsi — Saqi

يا أَخا الرَشا وَالغزلان
اِفعل ما تَشا
O brother of the fawn and the gazelles,
do whatever you wish;
أَنتَ في الحَشا
رِفقاً بِالصَب المُتيم
you are within my heart.
Be gentle with the lovesick, enthralled lover,
ياغصين البان
إِنّ صَبري بان
O little branch of the bān tree!
Indeed, my patience has departed
مُذ بَدا بَدر المحيّا
أَهيف القَدّ
since the full moon of that face appeared.
The slender-figured one
زادَ بي وَجدي
وَجَلا شَمس الحميا
increased my longing within me.
And the sun of wine was unveiled
ثَغرهُ الشهدي
في حمى الخَدِّ
by his honey-sweet mouth
within the sanctuary of the cheek.
أطلعت شُهب الثُريّا
في سَما العقد
The Pleiades' bright stars brought forth
in the sky of the necklace
كَوكَبي نَهدِ
فَاِعذر من وشا فَالفتان
two stars of the bosom.
So forgive whoever bore tales: the charmer
لبّي أَدهشا
لَمّا أَن مَشى
bewildered my mind
when he walked.
يا شَقيق الروح مَهلاً
أَعجمت حالي
O brother of my soul, be gentle!
My state was marked with a dot
نُقطة الخالِ
ما الهَوى وَاللَه سَهلا
by the dot of the beauty spot.
Love, by God, is not easy.
جيدك الحالي
فتنة الخالِ
Your adorned neck,
the beauty spot's enchantment!
لَو سَقاني الراح نَهلا
ثَغرك الحالي
If I were given a first draught of wine
by your sweet mouth,
وَالحمى خالي
روحي أَنعشا وَالرَيحان
while the sanctuary lay empty,
it would revive my spirit; and the basil
في الورد اِنتَشا
حَتّى عَرَّشا
would grow drunk among the roses
until it formed a bower.
ظبي سرب تاه عُجباً
وَالحَشا مَرعاه
A gazelle of the herd strutted in self-admiration,
and my heart is his pasture.
لَم تَزَل تَرعاه
جَرحت جفناه قَلباً
You have never ceased grazing there.
His two eyelids wounded a heart
في الهَوى يَهواه
آه من أفتاه
that loves him passionately.
Ah, who gave him leave?
لَو رَأَت عَيناك صَبّاً
وَجدُهُ أَضناه
If only your eyes saw a lovesick lover
whose longing has worn him out,
يا غَزالاً تاه
يا مَن أوحشا لِلوَلهان
O gazelle who struts in pride!
O you who brought desolation to the love-distraught,
حاشا ما فَشا
سرّاً لِلوشا
far be it! He has not divulged
a secret to the talebearers.
قَد أَطَلت الهَجر عَمداً
يا عَذب اللمى
You have deliberately prolonged the estrangement,
O sweet one with dusky lips!
تَعذيبي لِما
وَمَنعت الثَغر وِرداً
Why torment me?
And you withheld your mouth as a watering place.
للّه فَما
أَحلاه فَما
By God, how
sweet a mouth it is!
هَل نَظمت الدرّ عقداً
يَحلو مَبسَما
Have you strung the pearls into a necklace,
lovely as a smiling mouth,
يا بَدر السَما
يا مَن أَرعَشا بِالأَجفان
O full moon of the sky?
O you who set trembling, with your eyelids,
قَلبي ما اِختَشا
مِن سحرٍ نَشا
my heart, which felt no fear
of the magic that arose.