إشرَب فَقد شَرَّدَ ضَو

إشرَب فَقد شَرَّدَ ضَو

ءُ الصُّبحِ عنا الظُّلَما

ءُ الصُّبحِ عنا الظُّلَما

Drink, for dawn's light has driven

Drink, for dawn has scattered the dark

the darkness away from us.

And sunlight has spread over the earth's face, so smile,

وَانْبَسَطَ النُّورُ على

وَانْبَسَطَ النُّورُ على

وجهِ الثّرى فابتسَما

وجهِ الثّرى فابتسَما

And light has spread over

As though the water-skin of the Pleiades poured into it stars,

the earth's face, and it has smiled,

And the pitcher aimed into the goblet some red wine

كأنّما أطلعَ ما

كأنّما أطلعَ ما

ء ُالمُزْنِ فيه أنجُمَا

ء ُالمُزْنِ فيه أنجُمَا

as though the rainclouds' water had brought forth

When she brayed, it seemed as though, moaning,

stars within it.

She wept blood.

وصَوَّبَ الإبريقُ في ال

وصَوَّبَ الإبريقُ في ال

كاسِ مُداماً عَنْدَما

كاسِ مُداماً عَنْدَما

And the ewer poured into the

cup blood-red wine,

كأنَّها إذ مَجَّها

كأنَّها إذ مَجَّها

مُقَهقِهاً تَبكِي دَما

مُقَهقِهاً تَبكِي دَما

as though the wine, when spat out

by the guffawing ewer, were weeping blood.