Sol 6.1

  1. رِدَا ماءَ حُزوَى فَانشَحَا نِضوَتَيكُما

    عَلَى حِينَ يخلِى ماءَ حُزوَى رَقِيبُهَا

    Come, you two, to Ḥuzwā's water, and give your two worn she-camels a little to drink,

    when her watcher leaves Ḥuzwā's water unattended.

  2. وَسُوفَا الثَّرَى حَتّى يُحَلِّىءَ عَنكُما

    غَلِيلَ الصَّدَى بَردُ الحِياضِ وَطِيبُهَا

    And smell the moist earth until you both are relieved

    of burning thirst by the pools' coolness and sweetness.

  3. فَإِنَّ على الماء الّذِى تَرِدانِهِ

    مُفَلَّجَةَ الأَنيابِ دُرمٌ كُعُوبُها

    For at the water to which you both come

    is a woman with spaced canine teeth and softly rounded ankles.

  4. فَما مُزنَةٌ بَينَ السِّماكَينِ أَومَضَت

    مِنَ الغَورِ ثُمَّ استَعرَضَتها جَنُوبُها

    For no rain cloud that flashed between the two Simāk stars

    from the lowlands, then was swept broadside by its south wind,

  5. بِأَحسَنَ مِنها يَومَ قَالَت وَحَولَنا

    مِنَ النَّاسِ أَو شابٌ يُخافُ شَغُوبُهَا

    was fairer than she, the day she spoke, while around us

    was a mixed crowd of people whose troublemaker was feared:

  6. تَغَانَيتَ وَاستَغنَيتَ عَنّا بِغَيرِنا

    هَنِيئَا لِمَن فِى السِّر أَنتَ حَبِيبُهَا

    “You have feigned indifference and found others to take our place;

    good fortune to her whose beloved you are in secret!”

  7. فَقُلتُ لَها اَنتِ الحَبِيبةُ فَاعلَمِى

    إِلَى يَومِ يَلقَى كُلَّ نَفسٍ حَسِيبُهَا

    So I said to her, “You are the beloved—know that—

    until the day each soul meets its Reckoner.”

  8. وَدِدتُ بِلا مَقتٍ مِنَ اللهِ أَنَّهَأ

    نَصِيبِى مِنَ الدُّنيا وَأَنِّى نَصِيبُهَا

    I wished, without incurring God's hatred, that she

    were my share of this world, and I her share.