صح بخيلِ العُلى إلى الغاياتِ

ما غَناءُ الأُسود في الغاباتِ

The camel rider journeys on to the farthest goals

No song of praise the lions in their forests sing

أيُّ فرق وبيضُنا مُغمدات

بين أغمادنا وبين الظُّباتِ

Of what worth are our sheathed swords to them

Among their sheaths and those the beasts do bring

لا يردُّ الرَّدَى لزومُ بُيوت

لا ولا يقتضيه جَوبُ فَلاةِ

Ruin comes not from shunning of men’s abodes

Nor from traversing the farthest wildering

مَولِدُ الدُّر حَماةٌ فإذا سَا

فَر حلَّى التيجانَ واللَّبَّاتِ

Pearls are native to the gulf, but when they go

They deck the crowns and circlets of the kings

اُفِّ لدَهرٍ ما يَنِي يُتعِسُ الفا

ضلَ في بدئِه وفي العَقَباتِ

Bear with Time, though he visit grief; the grieved

Lose at the start and in the reckoning

يَسكنُ المِسكُ سُرَّةَ الظَّبي بَدأً

ثم يُصلِيه وَقدةَ الَجمَراتِ

Musk scents the clothes of hunters at the first

Then incense-burners with their glowing rings