قُل لذوي سيفٍ وسيف ألستُم

أقلَّ بني سعدٍ حصاداً ومزرعا

Say to those with swords and sword, are you not

The least of the sons of Saad in harvest and farm

كأنكم جعلانُ دارٍ مُقامةٍ

على عذرات الحيّ أصبحنَ وقّعا

As though you made Dar's dwelling a standing place

Upon the excuses of the living you placed a seal

لقد نالَ سيفُ في سجستان نُهزةً

تطاول منها فوق ما كان إصبعا

Indeed the sword gained in Sijistan a defeat

That stretched over what was before only a finger

أصباَ الزناد الخمرَ حتى لقد نَمَت

له سُرّةٌ تُسقى الشرابَ المشعشَعا

Asad poured the wine until he was intoxicated

For him a secret that quenches insatiable drinking

فلولا هوانُ الخمر ما ذُقتَ طعمَها

ولا شُقنتَ إبريقاً بكفّك مترعا

If not for the disgrace of wine you'd not taste it

Nor tip a flask with your palm being greedy

كما لم يذقها أن تكون عزيزةً

أبوك ولم يُعرَض عليها فيطمعا

Just as he did not taste it though noble

Your father and was not presented to him to covet

وكان مكان الكلب أو من ورائه

إذا ما المُغَنّى للذاذةِ أسمعا

And was in place of the dog or behind him

When singers sang the pleasures he heard