1. O bearer in the scabbard's sheath made dull,
Dark with the night's dew, bright as a star in gloom,
١. يا حامِلاً في قِمَاطِ الغِمْدِ مُكْتَهِلاً
مِنَ الظُّبى نَيِّراً كَالنَّجْم في الظُّلَمِ
2. Had you not been as a babe, a child in youth,
They had not set you over heroes' blood and zeal.
٢. لَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ كالوَليدِ الطِّفْلِ في صِغَرٍ
مَا أوْضَعوهُ دَمَ الأَبْطال والهِمَمِ