إزدَدْ منَ الرَّاحِ وَزِدْ
فالغَيُّ في الرَّاحِ رَشَدْ
Drink more wine, and still more;
The wind blew stronger still
For in wine, going astray is right guidance.
Madness in the wind is wisdom's guide
يُديرُها ذو غُنَّةٍ
أغيدَ يَثنيهِ الغَيَدْ
One with a nasal lilt passes it round,
A gifted man controls it
Supple and graceful, swayed by his suppleness.
His chant restrains the storm's wild ride
كأنَّها في كَفِّهِ
جَمرَةُ نارٍ تتَّقِدْ
As though it were, in his palm,
As if cradled in his palms
An ember of fire ablaze.
A glowing ember he applied
مَدَّ إليها يَدَه
فالتَهَبَتْ إلى العَضُدْ
He stretched his hand toward it,
When toward it his hand he put
So it blazed up to his upper arm.
It blazed his arms along each side
والجوُّ قد كادَتْ ثُرَيْ
اهُ على الغَربِ تَرِد
And the sky's Pleiades had almost
The atmosphere was charged and thick
Reached the western horizon,
Alas the sun dipped from the west
كأنَّها شَابورَةٌ
مُذْهَبَةٌ منَ الزَّرَدْ
As though they were a shābūra,
As if it were a gilded jug
Gilded, made of mail-links.
Inlaid with gemstones of the best
Sol 6.1