حكمُ الهوى جرَّ عليك الجَرة

فاتَّفق المَقدورُ والمَقدرَه

The decree of passion inflicted hardship upon you

So fate and destiny coincided

في شادنٍ خمرةُ أجفانِه

تجتمعُ الناسُ لها دَسكَرَه

In the intoxication of his eyelids is a wine

That people gather for in throngs

يُستعظمُ الأصغرُ من عطفِه

فإن شكَوتَ الأعظَم استَصغرَه

The least of his kindness seems great

If you complain of the greater, he makes light of it

لو كان طولُ الدهرِ يُنسي كما

قيلَ إذاً ما خِفتُ أن أذكرَه

If the passage of time caused forgetting, as is said

Then I wouldn't fear remembering him

وخبروني أنَّ طَيفاً سَرى

لغَيرهم عِند الذي أبصَرَه

And they told me that an apparition passed by

To others, by the one who saw it

فقلتُ لو نمتُ لحدَّثتُكُم

ما تشهدُ العينُ بما لَم تَرَه

So I said, if I slept, I would tell you

What the eye witnesses but hasn't seen

وكم تَباكَينا وما يَستَوي

هل تَلحقُ الكحلاءَ ذاتُ المرَه

How we cried and cried, but are they equal

Can kohl-lined eyes match those with kuhl?

ولا علمنا أبداً أعين

فاض علينا أم ندى حيدَرَه

We never knew if our eyes

Overflowed or if it was the dew of Haidar

شدَّ العَطايا بالسَّجايا فما

حال بِه دَهرٌ ولا غيَّرَه

He tied gifts with poems, so neither

Time nor change altered them

من المَعالي الطائِعات التي

تَعجزُ عنها الألسُن المخبرَه

Of the compliant glories that

Eloquent tongues fall short of expressing

يقطعُها جودُ بنيهِ ولا

تقطعُها الكَوماءُ ذاتُ البرَه

The generosity of his sons cuts them short, not

The bare hillsides

يسيرُ تيهاً وابنهُ وهو من

بعدِهما تيهاءَ مُستوعرَه

He walks lost, and after him his son

Then lost wanderings in the wilderness

لا تنكِروها شيَماً حُلوةً

من مرَّةٍ لَيسَت بمستَنكرَه

Do not deny it is a sweet nature

Not one to be rejected

كلُّ امرئٍ منهم أبوهُم إذا

جاد فإن جاد فما أجدرَه

Each man of them, when his father is generous

How worthy he is of generosity!

أحسنتَ بل أحسَنَ في الظنِّ مَن

ظنَّ بكَ الإحسانَ فاستَشعرَه

You have done well, or rather the one who expected

Goodness from you sensed it and perfumed it