ومُعطيةٍ صَفْوَ ما استودَعَتْ

ومُعطيةٍ صَفْوَ ما استودَعَتْ

مسامحةً عندَ إعطائِها

مسامحةً عندَ إعطائِها

And a giver of the purest of what she has stored,

Giving the essence of what she was entrusted with

ungrudging in her giving.

Forgiving when she gives

تُسِرُّ لَندمانِها هيبةً

تُسِرُّ لَندمانِها هيبةً

على أنه عبدُ آلائِها

على أنه عبدُ آلائِها

She secretly holds her drinking companion in awe,

She is pleased by his remorseful dignity

though he is a slave to her bounties.

As if he were a slave to her bounties

فتمنحُه صفوَ مكنونِها

فتمنحُه صفوَ مكنونِها

وتَكتُمُه جُلَّ أقذائِها

وتَكتُمُه جُلَّ أقذائِها

So she grants him the purest of her hidden store,

So she grants him the essence of her secrets

and conceals from him most of her impurities.

And hides from him most of her pains

وتُحدِثُ في الماءِ بردَ الشَّمالِ

وتُحدِثُ في الماءِ بردَ الشَّمالِ

إذا سُدَّ فُوها على مائِها

إذا سُدَّ فُوها على مائِها

And she produces in the water the chill of the north wind,

And cools the water with a north wind

when her mouth is sealed over her water.

When its mouth is blocked from its water

يُصوِّبُ في طَرفِ أنفاسِها

يُصوِّبُ في طَرفِ أنفاسِها

ويشربُ من جُرحِ أحشائِها

ويشربُ من جُرحِ أحشائِها

He bends down at the tip of her breaths,

He steadies his glance on the edge of her breaths

and drinks from the wound in her innards.

And drinks from the wound of her insides

إذا القيظُ أخمدَ نيرانَه

إذا القيظُ أخمدَ نيرانَه

تَواصَى النَّدامى بإقصائِها

تَواصَى النَّدامى بإقصائِها

When the summer heat has extinguished its fires,

When the sultry heat dampens its fires

the drinking companions urge one another to set her aside.

The remorseful whisper of banishing her