راضَ نَفسي حَتّى تَرَضَّيتُ إِبلي

سُ قَديماً قَد طاوَعَتهُ النُفوسُ

I pleased myself until my camels were content

Long ago, souls obeyed it

كَم أَرَدتُ التَقى فَما تَرَكَتني

خَندَريسٌ يُديرُها طاوُوسُ

How much I wanted to meet, but Khandaris did not leave me

A peacock leads them

أَسكَنوها في الدُنِّ مِن عَهدِ نوحٍ

كَظَلامٍ فيهِ نَهارٌ حَبيسُ

They settled them in the lowlands since the days of Noah

Like darkness in which there is an imprisoned daylight

يَخرِجُ العِلجُ خَيرَها وَتُعاني

في ظِلالٍ كَما تُصانُ العَروسُ

Treatment brings out the best in them and they suffer

In shades as the bride is protected

وَهيَ عِندي لا ذا وَلا ذا وَهَذا

هِيَ سَعدٌ قَد فارَقَتهُ النُحوسُ

And they are nothing to me, neither this nor that

This is Saad who has been abandoned by misfortunes

أَيُّ حُسنٍ تُخفي الدُنانُ مِنَ الرا

حِ وَحُسنٍ تَبديهِ مِنها الكُؤوسُ

What beauty do the lowly world hide from the onlooker, and what beauty made apparent by cups?

My drinking companion, serve me drinks for dawn has arrived and the bell has tolled

يا نَديمَيَّ إِسقِياني فَقَد لا

حَ صَباحٌ وَأَذَّنَ الناقوسُ

From a heap as if it were land of incense

In its regions implanted pearls

مِن كُمَيتٍ كَأَنَّها أَرضُ تِبرٍ

في نَواحيهِ لُؤلُؤٌ مَغروسُ

Evil laughed when it saw I had grown old and said the vines had withered

I said that there is still grace in my youth

ضَحِكَت شُرُّ إِذ رَأَتني قَد شِب

تُ وَقالَت قَد فُضَّضَ الآبَنوسُ

Then it said this is borrowed youth

I have enjoyed what has satisfied me, when I was weaned from frivolity and accustomed to solitude

قُلتُ إِنَّ الشَبابَ فِيَّ لَباقٍ

بَعدُ قالَت هَذا شَبابٌ لَبيسُ

And my heart is like lines on paper, and my cheek planted with my beard

قَد تَمَتَّعتُ ما كَفاني إِذ رَب

عي مِنَ اللَهوِ وَالصِبا مَأنوسُ

وَفُؤادي مِثلُ القَناةِ مِنَ الخَط

طِ وَخَدّي مِن لِحيَتي مَكنوسُ