أما قويقٌ فارتدي بمعصفرٍ

أما قويقٌ فارتدي بمعصفرٍ

شرِقٍ بحمرتِه الغَداة بياضُهُ

شرِقٍ بحمرتِه الغَداة بياضُهُ

As for Quwayq, it has clothed itself in safflower-dyed cloth,

The partridge donned a yellow mantle at dawn

its whiteness this morning suffused with its redness.

Whose whiteness turned rosy in the morning light

فكأَنَّه فيما اكتسى من صبغِه

فكأَنَّه فيما اكتسى من صبغِه

نَفَضتْ شقائقَها عليه رياضُه

نَفَضتْ شقائقَها عليه رياضُه

So it is as though, in the hue it has donned,

As if, when it took on its color,

its meadows had shaken their anemones over it.

His meadows had shed their anemones upon it