لعمري لنعمَ المرءُ يطرقُ ضَيفُةُ

إذا بانَ من ليلٍ التمام هزيعُ

By my life! How good for a man to knock as a stranger

When the night approaches its end and all is ruined

بَذولٌ لما في رحله غيرُ زُمَحٍ

إذا أبرزَ الحور الروائعَجوع

Generous when in his saddlebags there is nothing but want

When he shows the ladies his burning desire

إذا الشمس اضحت في السماء كأنها

من المحلِ حُضٌ قد علاهُ ردوعُ

When the sun rises in the sky as though

It were a bride carried from her bedchamber veiled