كأنas though أعينهاher eyes منfrom طولthe long duration ماwhat جشمتshe endured
كأن أعينها من طول ما جشمت
سيرtravel الهواجرthe midday heats زيتoil فيin قواريرِflasks
سير الهواجر زيت في قواريرِ
As though her eyes, from long enduring
As if her eyes from so much gazing
travel through the midday heat, were oil in flasks.
At the migrants' trails were oil in flasks
اذاwhen ونتshe grew weary ذاتُone possessing أذيالtrailing skirts تذيعshe makes known بهabout it
اذا ونت ذاتُ أذيال تذيع به
قالتshe said لاخرىto another female كغيريlike someone other than me أغضبتshe provoked anger دوريcircle round
قالت لاخرى كغيري أغضبت دوري
When one with trailing skirts grew weary, making it known,
If she whose trailing robes would spread the scent
she said to another, ‘Like someone other than me, she has stirred anger; circle round.’
Said to another, "Like me you have angered my home!"
كأنas though مختلفthe place of passage الأرواحthe winds بينهماbetween the two of them
كأن مختلف الأرواح بينهما
فيهاwithin her ملاعبplaygrounds أبكارvirgin maidens معاصيرِjust reaching womanhood
فيها ملاعب أبكار معاصيرِ
As though the winds’ passage between the two of them
As if the spirits between them
were, within her, playgrounds of maidens just reaching womanhood.
Were girls at play there with their anklet bells
Sol 6.1