ألم أُضْحِكْكَّ من خَبَري

وبيعي النومَ بالسَّهرِ

Did I not make you laugh with my story

And sell sleep for wakefulness?

وجهلي كان في أَسَدٍ

وليس الجهلُ من وطري

My ignorance was that of a lion

Ignorance is not my character

ونهي فتىً نهاني عن

ه في صَحْوي وفي سَكَري

And I forbade a youth my forbiddings

From love, both awake and drunk

فقال أما تراه قا

سياً أَقسى من الحجر

He said: Do you not see him bowing

His head, harder than rock?

غزالاً صاد برذوناً

دعِ البرذونَ في سقر

A gazelle hunting an ox

Leave the ox in Hell

وبادرْ شَقَّ حافِرهِ

وسيِّبْهُ معَ البَقَر

And rush to split its hoof

And leave it with the cattle