اخا الاشجان حي على الفلاح

سكرت وقد برزت بثوب صاحى

O brother of melancholy, awake to joy

You were intoxicated and emerged in sober clothes

هل النفحات من ازهار نجد

سقتك من الغرام قديم راح

Are the breezes from the flowers of Najd

That quenched your thirst from an old passion?

ولهت بروض بر عبقري

وهمت بريم هاتيك البطاح

You were distracted by the meadow's fragrance

And imagined yourself in these lowlands

تذكر فالغرام له شؤن

تقاتل ذا الصبابة بالسلاح

Remember that love has its ways

That even youths fight with weapons

وكم للعشق من علل جسام

فلو اقلعت عن حب الملاح

And love has many great afflictions

If you refrain from the sailor's love

امحضك النصيحة والتصابي

يزحزحني لحبي عن مراحى

I advise and reconcile you

To divert my love from its course

اراه بكل مرئي لوجدي

واشرق فيه بالماء القراح

I see it in everything my eyes perceive

And it shines through the clear water

غزال حل في شطحات قلبي

وصيرها له بعض المضاحى

A gazelle settled in the expressions of my heart

And made it his meadow

يصول بقده فيهز زانا

وتعلم صاح طاعنة الرماح

He prances with his beauty and shakes a branch

And you know the cry of one pierced by a spear

ويبعث من سواد الطرف عضبا

ولست بجاهل بيض الصفاح

He sends from his dark eyelashes anger

And I'm no fool when it comes to white pages

ترقرق فيه ماء الحسن حتى

جلا بالوجه طالعة الصباح

The water of beauty ripples in him

Glistening on his face like the morning

تثاقل في حقوق الود كبرا

وخفف بالهوى وزن الرجاح

He was haughty with the rights of love

And lightened with passion the weight of scales

تباخل وهو يعرف صدق ودي

وقد بني الوداد على السماح

He was stingy yet knew my love was true

And love was built on generosity

اغار علي من عينيه جندا

رمتني بين ذي عذل ولاحى

He envied me for my eyes that sent

Between blame and the flashing of a sword

ورب الراقصات بسفح سلع

ونشر الزهر من تلك الضواحي

By the Lord of dancers on the slopes of Sala'

Where flowers spread through those valleys

فؤادي ما سلا حبي وروحي

لديه في الغدو وفي الرواح

My heart did not neglect my love and soul

It is with him at dawn and in the evening

اما وهواه جاري مل مني

ونوحي لهفة ملأ النواحي

As long as his passion flows from me

And my lament fills the valleys

اجاري ها سحاب الدمع جار

وخدي منه خدد الجراح

The clouds of tears flow

And my cheek shows the wounds

وقلبي طائر للحب فارحم

بحقك لوعتي وارحم نواحي

My heart is a bird flying in love - have mercy

For your sake on my pain and agony

ولا تثقل علي العذل اني

يعوقني اللطيف من الرياح

Do not weigh heavily on me with blame

The gentle breeze holds me back

ورب معاتب للدهر لكن

تغافل عن معائبه الصراح

And the reproacher of fate but

Turns a blind eye to its clear faults

غزا اهل النهى بوجوه زيغ

سماج من ذخائره وقاح

The forbidden attacked with deviant faces

Foolish from its treasures and filth

لقد سكتوا عن المعروف طبعا

وقد ملأ وا البرية بالصياح

They were silent about kindness by nature

And filled the land with screams

فمن يرجو الوفاء من الاداني

كمن يرجو السخاء من الشحاح

So who hopes for loyalty from the weak

Like hoping for generosity from the stingy

الا خل العتاب اخل وارجع

لصفو في شؤنك وارتياح

Leave off reproach, leave off, and return

To the sincerity of your condition and comfort

وعلل قلبك المحزون حينا

باحبار الاخلاء الصحاح

And preoccupy your saddened heart for a while

With the ink of good friends

وريض منك عن شيم خيالا

برب القرط او ذات الوشاح

And rid yourself of the imagination of a phantom

By the Lord of earrings or a veiled woman

ولا تبعث لشأن الدهر فكرا

ففيه الهم منفلت الجماح

And do not give thought to the matter of fate

In it worries flow unbridled

وطر لرياضة الافكار عن ذا ال

زمان وعن ذويه بلا جناح

And set your thoughts to roam

From this age and its people without wings

وعين غزيلي اني ولوه

باطوار العرانين الصباح

And my gazelle, I am his though

By the ways of youths at dawn

ولكن الشؤن لها فنون

تغلغل بالدجى والوقت ضاحى

But it has its ways

That penetrate the darkness and the time of sobriety