هذا الخليجُ فمَرْحَبا بزمانِهِ

يا حَبَّذا الآصالُ بين جِنانِهِ

This gulf, so welcome is its time

Oh, how delightful are its shores between its groves

فامرحْ بطَرْفِك كيف شئتَ ترى به

معنى يَفُكُّ القلبَ من أحزانه

So stroll with your gaze as you wish, you will find in it

A meaning that frees the heart from its sorrows

تَسْرِى الصَّبا في جانبيه عَليلةً

فيَثور عرفُ المسكِ من ريحانه

The morning breeze flows gently on its sides

And the scent of musk rises from its sweet basil

وتَهُبّ فوقَ إهابِه فتُعيده

دُرّا يعز الطرفَ عند عِيانه

It blows above its banks restoring them

As pearls that delight the eye in their visibility

فكأنّ وسوسةَ الغصونِ أحبَّةٌ

كلٌّ يُبثُّ أخاه من ألحانه

It is as if the whispers of the branches are loved ones

Each imparting to his brother some of his melodies

حَنَّت دَواليبُ المياهِ وساعدتْ

شَدَواتِ لحنِ الطيرِ في أغصانه

The mill wheels of water complied and aided

The birds' singing in the branches of their nests

والشمسُ في أفق الغُروبِ كراحلٍ

متأسِّفٍ بالبين عن أوطانه

And the sun on the horizon like traveling caravans

Yearning for their homelands after separation

ذا منظرٌ لو أنصفوه سَعَى له

كِسْرى أنو شروان من إيوانه

This is a view that if treated justly, for it

Khosrow Anushirvan strove, from his palace

لله أيامي به ومُساعِدِي

من صَحَّ عِقْدُ السحرِ من أجفانه

My days in it, and my helpers

When the spell of magic clears from their eyelids

من خَدِّه وَرْدِى ورَشْفِ رُضابه

خَمْرى ونُقْلى مَصُّ طرْفِ لسانه

From his cheek, my roses, and the sipping of his approval

My wine, and my transport, sucking his tongue

يسعى بمِرِّيِّحٍ تَضمَّن قامةً

كالسَّمْهَرى ولحْظُهُ كسِنانه

Seeking with a gentle breeze that carried

A statue, his glance like his teeth

فأروح في بُرْدِ الشبابِ وأغتدِي

وزمامُ أمرِي في يَدَيْ شيطانه

So I wander in the coolness of youth and don fine clothes

With the reins of my affair in the hands of its devil