كَمhow much سُرورٍjoy زُرِعتُI sowed (vocalized here: I was planted) بَينَamong النَدامىthe drinking companions
كَم سُرورٍ زُرِعتُ بَينَ النَدامى
وَهُمومٌand cares طَرَدتُI banished بَينَamid الكُؤوسِthe cups
وَهُمومٌ طَرَدتُ بَينَ الكُؤوسِ
How much joy I have sown among drinking companions,
How much joy was sown among the remorseful
and how many cares I have banished amid the cups!
And sorrows were chased away between the cups
وَتَلوحُand gleam النُجومُthe stars فيin ظُلمَةِthe darkness of اللَيthe night (continued in line 4)
وَتَلوحُ النُجومُ في ظُلمَةِ اللَي
لِcompletion of 'night' from line 3 كَعاجٍlike ivory يَلوحُgleams فيin آبُنوسِebony
لِ كَعاجٍ يَلوحُ في آبُنوسِ
And the stars gleam in the darkness of the night,
The stars shine in the darkness of the night
like ivory gleaming in ebony.
Like ivory shining in Ebony
Claude 2 is inferred from the historical translator configuration. The original record does not identify its model.