أبا الهجر والصرم الأشاحم تصدح — أبو وجزة السعدي

أَبا الهَجرِ وَالصَرمِ الأَشاحِمُ تَصدَحُ

وَطيرٌ بِأَجوازٍ حَواذِرُ نُوَّحُ

Is it of estrangement and severance that the black ravens cry,

and wary birds in the middle reaches wail?

وَإِذ هِيَ كَالبِكرِ الهِجانِ إِذا مَشَت

أَبى لا يُماشيها القِصار الدرادِحُ

And when she walked, she was like a young, purebred white camel—

too proud for the short, squat ones to walk beside her.

أَوِ الأَثابِ الدَوحِ الطِوالِ فُروعُهُ

بِخَيسَقَ هَزَّتهُ الصَبا المُتَناوِحُ

Or the great, spreading wild fig, with its lofty branches,

at Khaysaq, shaken by the eddying east wind.

لَعمرُكَ ما زادُ ابنِ عُروَة بِالَّذي

لَهُ دونَ أَيدي القَومِ قفلٌ ومفتَحُ

By your life, Ibn Urwah's provisions are not

kept from the people's hands under lock and key.

وَما ظِلُّهُ عَنهُم يَضيقُ وَما تُرى

رِكابُ أَبي بَكر تُصانُ وَتُمسَحُ

And his shade never grows too narrow for them, nor are

Abu Bakr's riding camels seen being spared and rubbed down.

وَأَبيَضَ نهّاضٍ بِكلِّ حَمالةٍ

فَلا سائِل فيها وَلا مُتَنَحنِحُ

And a radiant man, ever ready to shoulder every indemnity,

so no one need ask for it or even clear his throat.

فَتىً قَد كَفاني سيبُه ما أَهَمَّني

وَلي خِلتُ في أَعقارِهِ مُتَنَدَّحُ

A young man whose bounty has relieved me of what troubled me,

and, I thought, there was ample room for me on his estates.

أَغَرُّ تُنادي مَن يَليهِ جِفانُه

هدايا وَأُخراها قَواعِدُ رزَّحُ

Radiant is he; his bowls summon whoever is near him—

offerings—and the hindmost sit, weighed down.

فَتى الرَكبِ يَكفيهِم بِفَضلٍ وَيَكتَفي

وَفي الحَيِّ فَيّاضُ السجِيّات أَفيَحُ

The caravan's young man, he meets their needs with bounty and is content,

and among his clan, overflowing with innate virtues and open-handed.