وَما دَلِّ قَوما قبلنا ثَورُ حِجرِهِ

وَدونَ الَّذي نَخشى أُباةٌ وَسامِرُ

The rashness of a people before us misled them not,

Yet what we dread is headstrong foolishness and night talk.

فَلَم أَرَ يَوماً كانَ أَسنىغَنيمَةً

وَأَعجَبَ مِنهُ وَالدُهورُ عبائِرُ

I've never seen a day more profitable as booty,

Nor stranger than it is, while time's vicissitudes go on.