يا من له الصيد دأبٌ وهو نزهته

يا من له الصيد دأبٌ وهو نزهته

ولن يرى غيره بالأنس منعوتا

ولن يرى غيره بالأنس منعوتا

O you for whom hunting is a habit and a recreation,

O you whose habit is hunting, and it is your recreation,

and who will find nothing else described as delightful,

You will see none but it as a bosom friend.

نزه لحاظك في غراء بازية

نزه لحاظك في غراء بازية

حسناً تصير رب الحلم مبهوتا

حسناً تصير رب الحلم مبهوتا

delight your eyes in a radiant female hawk,

Take your eyes to a young, beautiful gazelle,

whose beauty leaves a man of sober judgment dumbfounded.

So excellent you render the patient lord love-smitten.

كأنما صدرها الرمان دبجه

كأنما صدرها الرمان دبجه

صحن اللجين علاه المسك مفتوتا

صحن اللجين علاه المسك مفتوتا

As though her breast, embroidered by the pomegranate,

As though its chest were brocade inlaid with pomegranate seeds,

were a silver platter strewn with crumbled musk.

A bowl of curds topped with melted musk.