خَليقَةُ شَهمٍ كُلَّما أَسمَحَت مَحَت

خَليقَةُ شَهمٍ كُلَّما أَسمَحَت مَحَت

مَعالِمَ جَدبٍ لَم يُطِق مَحوَها المَطَر

مَعالِمَ جَدبٍ لَم يُطِق مَحوَها المَطَر

A noble man’s nature—whenever it gave freely—effaced

A noble man's nature, whenever it gives freely, erases

the marks of drought, which the rain itself was not long in erasing.

the traces of drought that rain could not erase.