جزاء فتى تعرض للبعاد — أبو الحسن الجرجاني

جزاءُ فتىً تَعَرَّضَ للبعادِ

تجافي مُقلَتَيه عن الرُّقادِ

The recompense for a youth who courts separation

Is that his two eyes shun sleep.

وإن يُغري به شوقٌ مُوالٍ

يغالبُهُ على صَبرٍ مُعادِ

And if loyal longing goads him,

He wrestles with it for hostile patience;

وأجفانٌ تُرَوِّي كلَّ شيءٍ

سوى قلبٍ إلى الأخبار صادي

And eyelids that drench everything

Except a heart thirsting for news.

بذاك جزيتُ إذ فارَقتُ قوماً

لِبستُ لِبَينهم ثوبَي حِدادِ

Thus was I repaid when I parted from people

For whose departure I wore two robes of mourning:

معادنُ حكمةس وغُيوث جَدبٍ

وأنُجمُ جيرةٍ وَصُدُور نادي

Mines of wisdom and rains in drought,

And stars of the neighborhood, and leaders of the assembly.

نأوا عِّني وعندهم فؤادي

وِغبتُ ولم يَغِب عنهم ودادي

They went far from me, yet my heart is with them;

And I was absent, but my affection was not absent from them.

ولولا شِقوَتي ما فارقُوني

وكانوا بين جَفني والسَّوَادِ

And but for my misfortune, they would not have left me,

And they were between my eyelid and my eye's dark pupil.

فقُل في حالِ مأسورٍ ضعيفِ

يلوذُ من الأَعَادِ بالأَعَادي

So speak of the plight of a weak captive

Who seeks refuge from enemies with enemies.