ألذ العيش إتيان الصبيح

ألذ العيش إتيان الصبيح

وعصيان النصيحة والنصيح

وعصيان النصيحة والنصيح

Life’s sweetest pleasure is visiting the fair-faced one,

The sweetest life is to enjoy the morn,

And defying counsel and the counselor,

And disobey advice and the advisor;

وأصغاء إلى وتر وناي

وأصغاء إلى وتر وناي

إذا ناحا على زق جريح

إذا ناحا على زق جريح

And listening to a string and a reed flute,

To listen to the lute and flute,

When both wail over a wounded wineskin,

When they lament about the wounded heart;

غداة دجنة وطفاء تبكي

غداة دجنة وطفاء تبكي

إلى ضحك من الزهر المليح

إلى ضحك من الزهر المليح

On a morning when a dark, rain-laden cloud weeps

After a dark and extinguished night that weeps,

To the laughter of lovely blossoms,

To laughter from a pretty flower;

وقد حديت قلائصها الحيارى

وقد حديت قلائصها الحيارى

بحاد من رواعدها فصيح

بحاد من رواعدها فصيح

And her bewildered young she-camels have been urged onward

As though its anklets were chiming,

By an eloquent camel-driver—one of her thunderclaps;

With a sharp clink from its bracelets.

وبرق مثل حاشيتي رداء

وبرق مثل حاشيتي رداء

جديد مذهب في يوم ريح

جديد مذهب في يوم ريح

And lightning like the two edges of a cloak,

Its lightning is like the border of a cloak,

New and gold-embroidered, on a windy day.

Newly gilded on a windy day.