Claude 2

  1. مولايَ لي ولدٌ لسوء تصرفي

    تبع الضلال وشذَّ عن آبائهِ

    My son, due to my poor guidance

    followed misguidance, deviating from his forefathers.

  2. أهملتُهُ طفلاً فلمَّا شبَّ لم

    ارعهُ حتى خاضَ في غلوائِهِ

    I neglected him as a child, so when he grew up

    I did not watch over him until he indulged in his whims.

  3. وهناك عينُ مذ رأتها عينُهُ

    غزلت له باللحظ خيطَ شقائِهِ

    And there an eye, when his eye saw it

    spun for him with a glance the thread of his misery.

  4. وروائد الحبّ العيون فإِن دعت

    قلباً أطاعَ فهام في أهوائهِ

    And the messengers of love are eyes, so if they call

    a heart that obeys the raving in its passions.

  5. والحبُّ داءٌ للقلوب إِذا نما

    أعيى على بقراط نهج دوائِهِ

    And love is an illness of hearts when it grows

    it blinds Hippocrates' path to its remedies.

  6. هي غادةُ لو شامها بدرُ الدُجى

    لسعى إليها من ذرى عليائِهِ

    She is Ghada. If the full moon smelled her

    it would hasten to her from the heights of its orbit.

  7. فأحبها فرنند وهي نظيره

    في الحب ساعيةٌ إلى إرضائِهِ

    So Ferdinand loved her, and she matched him

    in love, striving to please him.

  8. فتراسلا سراً وكان لها أَبٌ

    اللطفُ والاحسانُ من أَعدائِهِ

    They corresponded secretly, and she had a father

    whose kindness was among his enemies.

  9. فلسوءِ حظهما درى السر الذي

    قد بالغا حرصاً على إِخفائِهِ

    Due to their bad luck he uncovered the secret

    which they were extremely careful to conceal.

  10. عصفَت به إذ ذاك حدته وقد

    هاجت هياج النار في أَحشائِهِ

    His sharpness stormed over him, as

    the fury of fire raged in his entrails.

  11. أَعطى ابنهُ سيفاً وقال اقتل به

    فرنند واغسل عارنا بدمائِهِ

    He gave his son a sword and said, "Kill Ferdinand with it

    and wash away our shame with his blood."

  12. فتقاتلا وابني استطال عليه إذ

    ما كان ذاك الخصم من اكفائِهِ

    So they fought a duel, but my son was bested

    since that opponent was not one of his peers.