قُل لِلزَّمانِ لَئِن سرت مَحاسِنكَ ال

قُل لِلزَّمانِ لَئِن سرت مَحاسِنكَ ال

لاتي غَرَرنَ لَقَد ساءَت مَساويكا

لاتي غَرَرنَ لَقَد ساءَت مَساويكا

Tell Time: Though your beguiling beauties delighted me—the

Tell Time: even if your charms have delighted—those

Say to Time: If your charms have brought delight,

ones that deceived me—your faults have surely distressed me.

That beguiled—your faults have surely brought sorrow.

Those that deceived, your evils have brought blight.

كَأَنَّني لَم أَقبل مِن حَلا فَمهُ

كَأَنَّني لَم أَقبل مِن حَلا فَمهُ

عِندَ الصَباحِ وَلَم يَحتَج مَساويكا

عِندَ الصَباحِ وَلَم يَحتَج مَساويكا

As though I had never kissed one whose mouth was sweet

As though I had not kissed one whose mouth was sweet

As if I never kissed the sweetness of his mouth

in the morning, when he needed no tooth-cleaning sticks.

At dawn, and who needed no tooth-cleaning sticks.

At dawn, when he had no need of a siwak.