قُم يا نَديمي نَصطَبِح بِسَوادِ

قَد كادَ يَبدو الصُبحُ أَو هُوَ بادِ

Rise, my boon companion, let us greet the dawn

The morn is nigh, or soon will dawn the morn

وَأَرى الثُرَيّا في السَماءِ كَأَنَّها

قَدَمٌ تَبَدَّت في ثِيابِ حِدادِ

See how the Pleiades in yonder sky

Seem like a foot set free from mourner's shoon

فَأَجابَني بِيَمينِها فَمَلَأتُها

بِزُجاجَةٍ كَالكَوكَبِ الوَقّادِ

She proffered me her right hand, and I filled it

With a flagon like a kindled planet bright

يا صاحِ لا يَخدَعكَ ساعَةُ غَفلَةٍ

عَن لِذَّةٍ أَو فِكرَةٍ لِمَعادِ

Oh sage, thine hours of heedlessness beware

Lest they deprive thee of the thoughts of fate

وَاِشرَب عَلى طيبِ الزَمانِ فَقَد حَدا

بِالصَيفِ مِن أَيلولَ أَسرَعُ حادِ

Drink from the cup of time while sweet the draft

For fast on summer treads autumnal blight

وَأَشَمَّنا في اللَيلِ بَردَ نَسيمِهِ

وَاِرتاحَتِ الأَرواحُ في الأَجسادِ

The night wind whispers in the dark and cool

While souls find ease at last in bodies tight

وافاكَ بِالأَنداءِ قُدّامَ الحَيا

فَالأَرضُ لِلأَمطارِ في اِستِعدادِ

The skies will shower favor on the land

And earth makes ready for the rains in sight

كَم في ضَمائِرِ تُربِها مِن رَوضَةٍ

بِمَسيلِ ماءٍ أَو قَرارَةِ وادِ

What gardens lurk in the hearts of its soil

Whether with water-runnel or wadi-bed

تَبدو إِذا جاءَ الزَمانُ بِقَطرَةٍ

فَكَأَنَّما كانا عَلى ميعادِ

Just one rain drop and, lo! should time allow

'Tis as though the two had met, as was their plight