لا أركبُ البحرَ حذار الردى

لا أركبُ البحرَ حذار الردى

للبحرِ أهوالٌ وأمواجُ

للبحرِ أهوالٌ وأمواجُ

I do not sail the sea, for fear of death.

I do not sail the seas for fear of harm,

I do not ride the sea for fear of death,

The sea has terrors and waves.

The sea has horrors and raging waves,

For the sea holds terrors and crashing waves.

والبرّ لا زلتُ له سالكاً

والبرّ لا زلتُ له سالكاً

لي فيه ولا في البحرِ منهاجُ

لي فيه ولا في البحرِ منهاجُ

And the land—may I never cease to travel it;

And I still walk the land as my path,

It is the land I cease not to traverse;

I have a path through it, but none through the sea.

Neither the sea nor the land lead my way.

My path lies there, and not within the sea.

لستُ بولاج على جارتي

لستُ بولاج على جارتي

لكن على ابنِ الجارِ ولاجُ

لكن على ابنِ الجارِ ولاجُ

I am no frequent visitor to my female neighbor,

I am not infatuated with my neighbor,

I am not one to penetrate my female neighbor,

but a frequent visitor to the neighbor's son.

But with my neighbor's son I am infatuated.

But into the neighbor's son, I penetrate deep.

لستُ على غير غلام أرى

لستُ على غير غلام أرى

أيري إذا هيّجتُ يهتاجُ

أيري إذا هيّجتُ يهتاجُ

I never see, for anyone but a young man,

I desire no other lad when I see

I do not find myself atop any but a lad,

my penis grow aroused when I excite it.

Him frolic when I stir him to play.

For whom my member rages when I am roused.

لا يبعجُ الصدعَ ولكنّهُ

لا يبعجُ الصدعَ ولكنّهُ

لفُقحةِ الأمردِ بعّاجُ

لفُقحةِ الأمردِ بعّاجُ

It does not pierce the cleft, but it

He does not split the solid rock, but he

It does not cleave the female cleft, but rather,

is a forceful piercer of the beardless young man's anus.

Splits the stubborn giant's thick skull.

It is a cleaver of the beardless boy's behind.