Sol 6.1

  1. سَقى دِمنَتَينِ لَيسَ لي بِهِمُ عَهدُ

    بِحَيثُ اِلتَقى الداراتِ وَالجُرَّعُ الكُبدُ

    May rain water two abandoned camps with which I have no acquaintance,

    where the Dārāt and the massive sandbanks meet.

  2. فَيا رَبوَةَ الرَبعَينِ حُيِّيتِ رَبوَةً

    عَلى النَأيِ مِنّا وَاِستَهَلَّ بِكِ الرَعدُ

    So, hill of the two encampments, hail to you, O hill,

    despite your distance from us; may thunder peal over you.

  3. قَضَيتُ الغَواني غَيرَ أَنَّ مَوَدَّةً

    لِذَلفاءَ ما قَضَّيتُ آخِرَها بَعدُ

    I have finished with beautiful women, except for a love

    for Dhalfāʾ whose end I have not yet reached.

  4. فَرى نائِباتُ الدَهرِ بَيني وَبَينَها

    وَصِرفُ اللَيالي مِثلُ ما فُرِيَ البَردُ

    The calamities of time have torn me from her,

    and the vicissitudes of the nights, as a cloak is torn.

  5. فَإِن تَدَعي نَجدا نَدَعهُ وَمِن بِهِ

    وَإِن تَسكُني نَجدا فَيا حَبَّذا نَجدُ

    If you leave Najd, we shall leave it and whoever is there;

    and if you dwell in Najd—oh, how lovely is Najd!

  6. فَإِن كانَ يَومُ الوَعدِ أَدنى لِقائِنا

    فَلا تَعذِليني أَن أَقولَ مَتى الوَعدُ

    For if the appointed day is the soonest we can meet,

    then do not reproach me for asking, 'When is the appointment?'

  7. إِذا وَرَدَ المِسواكُ رَيّانَ بِالضُحى

    عَوارِضَ مِنها ظَلَّ يَخصُرُهُ البَردُ

    When the moist tooth-cleaning twig reaches, in the forenoon,

    her side teeth, their cold keeps chilling it.

  8. وَأَليَنَ مَن مَسَّ الرَحى باتَ يَلتَقي

    بِمارِنِهِ الجاديَّ وَالعَنبَرُ الوَردُ

    And the softest of those who have touched the millstone spends the night

    with saffron and rosy ambergris meeting at his soft nose-tip.