1. أَيُّها السابقُ النديمَ إِلى الشُّك

    ر مخلَّى العنان مُرْخَى الإِباض

    O you who outstrip the boon companion in giving

    thanks, with reins released and hobble slackened,

  2. والذي تُعرِضُ العواذلُ عنه

    وهو عَنها أحقُّ بالإعراض

    and you whom the reproaching women shun,

    though you have greater right to shun them—

  3. لو تأَمَّلتَ حُسن ميلادِنا اللي

    لةَ يا ابنَ الأكارمِ الأمحاض

    had you beheld the beauty of our Nativity celebration this

    night, O son of the noblest men of pure descent,

  4. والرُّبى لابساتُ ثلجٍ ونارٍ

    يَجْلُونَ الظلامَ بالإيماض

    with the hills clothed in snow and fire,

    dispelling the darkness with their flashes,

  5. قلتَ غيدٌ بَرَزنَ في يوم عيدٍ

    بين لُبْسَي مُعَصفَرْ وبياض

    you would have said, “Lissome maidens have emerged on a feast day,

    in two kinds of dress: safflower-dyed and white.”