1. أَلا يا اِسقِياني وَاِنفِيا عَنكُما القَذى

    فَلَيسَ القَذى بِالعودِ يَسقُطُ في الخَمرِ

    Come, you two, give me drink, and keep impurity away from you both.

    For the impurity is not a twig falling into the wine,

  2. وَلَيسَ قَذاها بِالَّذي لا يَريبُها

    وَلا بِالذُبابِ نَزعُهُ أَيسَرُ الأَمرِ

    Nor is its impurity something that does it no harm,

    Nor a fly, whose removal is the easiest of tasks;

  3. وَلَكِن قَذاها كُلُّ أَشعَثَ نابِئٍ

    رَمَتنا بِهِ الغيطانُ مِن حَيثُ لا نَدري

    But its impurity is every disheveled intruder

    Whom the lowlands have flung at us from we know not where.