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The old man has markings like spirits

وللشيخ تكبيه رسوم كأنها

1. The old man has markings like spirits
Of two eras have imbued them

١. وَلَلشَيخِ تَكبيهِ رُسومٌ كَأَنَّها
تَراوَحَها العَصرَينِ أَرواحُ مَندَدِ

2. Papyrus statues on a shivering woman
Whose flesh the epochs have worn threadbare

٢. تَماثيلُ قِرطاسٍ عَلى هَبهَبِيَّةٍ
نَضا الكورُ عَن لَحمٍ لَها مُتَخَدِّدِ

3. Her slipper rushed with the two swords and rested
In the valley of Thumail from a well-arranged fetus

٣. هَمَت نَعلُها بِالسَيلَحَينِ وَأَوفَضَت
بَوادي ثُمَيلٍ عَن جَنينٍ مُسَبَّدِ

4. We placed over it white tombs
Over a spring of murmuring and a watering place

٤. طَرَحنا فَوقَها أَبيَنِيَّةً
عَلى مَصدَرٍ مِن فَدفَداءَ وَمَورِدِ

5. And we can strike the reluctant full moon with a palm
Reprimanding it and fulfilling the desires of the lover

٥. وَقَد نَضرِبُ البَدرَ اللَجوجَ بِكَفِّهِ
عَلَيهِ وَنُعطي رَغبَةَ المُتَوَدِّدِ

6. If one of them curses us, a friend of his mother
Two intimate friends of helmets, an adopted ingrate

٦. إِذا سَبَّنا مِنهُم دَعِيٌّ لِأُمِّهِ
خَليلانِ مِن خوذانِ قِنٌّ مُوَلَّدِ