فؤادي قريحٌ قد جفاه اصطباره

ودمعي أبت إلا انسكابا غزاره

My heart is a talent that its endurance has dried it

And my tears refused except to flow abundantly

يسر الفتى بالعيش وهو مبيده

ويغتر بالدنيا وما هي داره

The young man is delighted with life while it destroys him

And he is deceived by the world though it is not his abode

وفي عبر الأيام للمرء واعظ

إذا صح فيها فكره واعتباره

And in the lessons of days there is for man a preacher

If his thoughts and considerations in them are sound

فلا تحسبن يا غافل الدهر صامتا

فأفصح شيءٍ ليله ونهاره

So think not, O oblivious of fate, it is silent

For the clearest thing is its night and day

أصخ لمناجاة الزمان فأنه

سيغينك عن جهر المقال سراره

Listen to the whispering of time, for it

Will spare you the utterance of speech by its secrets

إدار على الماضين كأسا فكلهم

أبيحت مغانيه وأقوت دياره

Pass around to the departed a cup, for all of them

Its meanings were made lawful and their homes were demolished

ولم يحمهم من أن يسقوا بكأسهم

تناوش أطراف القنا واشتجاره

And none of them were protected from drinking of the cup

The wrangling of fate and its contentions

وغالت أبا عبد المليك صروفه

وقد كان دهراً لا يباح ذماره

And the turns of fortune exhausted Abu Abd al-Malik

Though he was once, his gambling was not permitted

فأصبح مجفوا وقد كان واصلاً

وأمسى قصيا وهو دانٍ مزاره

So he became obscured, and he was a connection

And he ended isolated, while he is valued his shrine

ولم أنس إذ أودى الحمام بنفسه

فلم يبق إلا فعله وادكاره

I do not forget when the dove took his soul

So nothing remained but his deeds and his generosity

إذا رقات عيني استهلت شؤونها

لمأتم حزن قد أرن صواره

When my eyes are softened, their sorrows unleash

The grief of sadness, which tyranny provoked

تجاوب هذي تلك عند بكائها

كترجيع شول حين حنت عشاره

This replies to that in its weeping

Like the cooing of doves when their young ones were taken

كأن لم يكن كالمزن يرهب صعقه

عدو ويرجى في المحول انهماره

As if he did not exist, like the watchman who fears its swooping

An enemy, and hopes for its downpour in the floodplain

أما وعلي مروان أن مصابة

أثار أسىً تذكى على القلب ناره

But by Ali, Marwan's affliction

Stirred a sorrow that ignites a fire in the heart

فلا شرب إلا قد تكدر صفوه

ولا نوم إلا قد تجافى غيراره

So no drink except its purity is disturbed

And no sleep except its warmth has turned away

فأي حيا للفضل أجلى غمامه

ونظمٍ من العلياء حان انتشاره

Which noble virtue made clear its clouds?

And whose poetry of the eminent has come to circulate?

خوى المجد من مروان وانهد طوده

وجد بمجد المرمات عثاره

Glory has vanished from Marwan and his towering heights leaned

And found in the glory of tombs its substitute

وما خلت أن الصبح يشرق بعده

لعينٍ وإن الروض يبقى اخضراره

And morning has not dawned after him with an eye

Whose meadow remains verdant in its greenery

فيا طود عز زلزل الأرض هده

وبدر علا راع الأنام انكداره

So O lofty pillar that shook the ground in its firmness

And full moon that saddened the people in its eclipse

هنيئاً للحد ضم شلوك أن غدا

عميد الندى والمجد فيه قراره

Congratulations to the grandfather who tomorrow contained

The unique perfume and settled glory in it

ولم أر درّاً قطُّ أصدافه الثرى

ولا بدر تمٍّ في التراب مغاره

And I have not seen a pearl whose shells the earth covered

Nor a full moon that took refuge in the soil

عزاءً بني عبد العزيز وإن خلا

من المجد مغناه وهد مناره

Condolences, O Banu Abd al-Aziz, though

Its shelter of glory and its beacon have emptied

ففيكم لهذا الصدع آسٍ وجابرٌ

وإن كان صعباً أسوه وانجباره

For you are for this crack a consoler and healer

Though severe its pain and unbearable

لكم شرف أرسى قواعد بيته

أبو بكر الساري إليكم نجاره

For you is the noble lineage that established its foundations

Abu Bakr al-Sari its carpenter for you

أجل وزير عطر الأرض ذكره

واخجل زهر النيرات فخاره

O excellent vizier whose mention scented the earth

And the blossoms of spears were humbled by his superiority

فلو كان للعلياء جيدٌ ومعصم

لأصبح منكم عقده وسواره

Had the eminent a neck and a protector

From you would be its choker and bracelet