رَمَيتَ ظِباءَ القَفرِ كَيما تَصيدَها

وَمَن صادَ عَفوَ اللَهِ أَرمى وَأَصيَدُ

You shoot arrows at the deer of the wilderness to hunt them

And he who hunts God's pardon has shot and hunted well

أَجَدَّكَ هَل أُنسيتَ صَحبَكَ في السُرى

وَكُلُّهُمُ مِن نَعسَةِ الفَجرِ أَغيَدُ

Do I find you - have you forgotten your companion in travel?

And all of them from the drowsiness of dawn are nodding off

كُهولٌ عَتَوا في سِنِّهِم وَكَأَنَّهُم

غُصونٌ عَلى مَيسِ الرَكائِبِ مُيَّدُ

Old men who were unruly in their days, as though they are

Branches swaying on the howdahs of the travelling camels

إِذا الصُبحُ أَعطى العَينَ عُنقودَ كَرمَةٍ

مُلاحيَّةٍ ما أَمَّلَت أَخذَهُ اليَدُ

When dawn gives the eye bunches of grapes

Of a vineyard no hand has hoped to pluck