بِالجِزعِ بَينَ الأَبرَقَينِ المَوعِدُ

فَأَنِخ رَكائِبَنا فَهذا المَورِدُ

At the pass between the two flashes is the tryst,

So pitch our tents for here is the halting-place.

لا تَطلُبَنَّ وَلا تُغادي بَعدَهُ

يا حاجِرٌ يا بارِقٌ يا ثَهمَدُ

Seek it not hereafter nor wander from it,

O rover or lightning flash or meteor.

وَالعَب كَما لَعِبَت أَوانِسُ نُهَّدٌ

وَاِرتَع كَما رَتَعَت ظِباءٌ شُرَّدُ

And sport as gazelles once frolicked there,

And browse as the antelopes freely grazed.

في رَوضَةٍ غَنّاءَ صاحَ ذِئابُها

فَأَجابَهُ طَرَباً هُناكَ مُغَرَّدُ

In a meadow, whose nightingales rejoiced,

Their howling answered by a singer.

رَقَّت حَواشيها وَرَقَّ نَسيمُها

فَالغَيمُ يَبرُقُ وَالغَمامَةُ تَرعُدُ

Soft are its margins, gentle is its breeze,

The clouds give lightning, thunder rumbles loud,

وَالوَدقُ يَنزِلُ مِن خِلالِ سَحابِهِ

كَدُموعِ صَبٍّ لِلفِراقِ تَبَدَّدُ

And rain descends through the rifts in clouds

Like tears shed copiously at parting.

وَاِشرَب سُلافَةَ خَمرِها بِخِمارِها

وَاِطرَب عَلى غَرِدٍ هُنالِكَ يُنشِدُ

Drink the wine of its goblet in its tavern

And delight in the singing voice chanting there.

وَسُلافَةٌ مِن عَهدِ آدَمَ أَخبَرَت

عَن جَنَّةِ المَأوى حَديثاً يُسنَدُ

A relic of the days of Adam has related

Tales of the paradise house that once stood.

إِنَّ الحِسانَ تَفَلنَها مِن ريقِهِ

كَالمِسكِ جادَ بِها عَلَينا الخُرَّدُ

Verily, its charm once spat from its saliva

As musk - on us the beetle showered this boon.