وَنَخيلٍ وَقَفنَ في مِعطَفِ الرَم

لِ وُقوفَ الحُبشانِ في التيجانِ

Palms stood wearing the coat of ashes

As if the Abyssinians were standing in crowns

شَرِبَت بِالأَعجازِ حَتّى تَرَوَّت

وَتَراءَت بِزينَةِ الرَحمانِ

They drank with the stems until they were saturated

And they were adorned with the grace of the Merciful

طَلَعَ الطَلعُ في الجَماجِمِ مِنها

كَأَكُفٍّ خَرَجنَ مِن أَردانِ

The sprouts emerged in their heads

Like palms sticking out from flower pots

فَتَراها كَأَنَّها كُمتُ الخَي

لَ تَوافَت مُصِرَّةَ الآذانِ

So you see them as if they were silent with awe

Not meeting the insistence of the ears

أَهُوَ الطَلعُ أَم سَلاسِلُ عاجٍ

حُمِلَت في سَفائِنِ العِقيانِ

Are those the sprouts or chains of ivory

Carried on the ships of the revered ones?

ثُمَّ عادَت شَبائِهاً تَتَباهى

بِأَعالي شِبائِهٍ أَقرانِ

Then they returned as youths boasting

With the heights of similar youths as peers

خَرَزاتٌ مِنَ الزَبَرجَدِ خُضرٌ

وَهَبَتها السُلوكُ لِلقُضبانِ

Beads of emerald green

And the tanner granted them to the bows

ثُمَّ حالَ النَجّارُ وَاِختَلَفَ الشَك

لُ فَلاحَت بِجَوهَرِ الأَلوانِ

Then the carpenter intervened and doubt was removed

So they shined with the essence of colors

بَينَ صُفرٍ فَواقِعٍ تَتَباهى

في شَماريخُها وَحُمرٍ قَواني

Between yellow, incumbent, boasting

In their trellises, and red, bending