يا ليلةً طالتْ كأنَّ نجومَها

غُرَماءُ أرقبَهُم لِدَيْنٍ واجبِ

O night that dragged on as if its stars

were sleepless lovers bound by duty,

والبَدْرُ كالشَّيْخِ الأجَلِّ تَمَنْطَقَتْ

قُدَّامَهُ الجَوْزاءُ مثلَ الحاجِبِ

The moon like an aged man declaiming

as the Pleiades gesticulated before him.