قد آن أن تصحو أو تقصر — عدي بن زيد

It is time you sobered—or held yourself back

—ages have overtaken what you once knew—

from the radiant women at al-Barayn; and there ap—

—pear bracelets upon their gleaming wrists:

fair women, robed in fine dimāqs silk; and at their—

—necks, beneath their collars, are pearls.