1. فاءَ لَكَ الحِلمُ فَاِلهَ عَن رَشَإٍ

    خالَطَ مِنهُ عَرفُ المُدامَةِ فا

    Your good sense has returned; so turn away from a young gazelle

    whose mouth is suffused with the fragrance of wine.

  2. وَاِبكِ عَلى طائِرٍ رَماهُ فَتىً

    لاهٍ فَأوهى بِفِهرِهِ الكَتِفا

    And weep for a bird that a youth struck

    heedlessly, injuring its shoulder with his stone,

  3. أَو صادَفَتهُ حِبالَةٌ نُصِبَت

    فَظَلَّ فيها كَأَنَّما كُتِفا

    or that encountered a snare that had been set

    and remained within it, as though pinioned.

  4. بَكَّرَ يَبغي المَعاشَ مُجتَهِداً

    فَقُصَّ عِندَ الشُروقِ أَو نُتِفا

    It set out early, diligently seeking sustenance,

    then at sunrise was clipped or plucked,

  5. كَأَنَّهُ في الحَياةِ ما فَرَعَ ال

    غِصنَ فَغَنّى عَلَيهِ أَو هَتَفا

    as though in life it had never climbed the

    branch and sung upon it or called out.