Sol 6.1

  1. أبي لي أن ألحى نديمي إذا انتشى

    وقال كلاما سيّئاً لي على السكر

    I am kept from reproaching my drinking companion when he grows drunk

    and says hurtful things to me in his drunkenness,

  2. وقاري وعلمي بالشراب وأهلهِ

    وما نادَم القوم الكرام كذي الحجر

    by my dignity and my knowledge of wine and its drinkers.

    And none keeps noble men company over wine like a man of sound judgment.

  3. فلستُ بلاحٍ لي نديماً بِزَلّةٍ

    ولا هفوةٍ كانت ونحن على الخمر

    So I do not reproach a drinking companion of mine for a slip,

    nor for a lapse that occurred while we were drinking wine.

  4. عركتُ بجنبي قول خدني وصاحبي

    ونحن على صهباءَ طيبّة النشر

    I brushed aside with my flank the words of my friend and companion,

    while we drank tawny wine of sweet fragrance.

  5. فلما تمادى قُلتُ خذها عريقةً

    فإنك من قومٍ جحاجحةٍ زهر

    Then, when he went too far, I said, 'Take it unmixed,

    for you come from a people of radiant, great chieftains.'

  6. فما زلتُ أسقية واشربُ مثل ما

    سقيتُ اخي حتى بدا وضحُ الفجرِ

    So I kept pouring him wine, and drinking as much as

    I poured for my brother, until the brightness of dawn appeared.

  7. ولاكَ لساناً كان إذ كان صاحياً

    يُقلّبهُ في كلُ فنٍّ من العشر

    And he chewed his tongue, which, when he was sober,

    he would wield in every kind of verse [assuming 'the ten' is a typo for 'poetry'].