للدَّهرِ في نكَباتِه تَنزيلُ
والخَطبُ جارٍ والحِمامُ نَزِيلُ
Fate metes out its calamities by degrees;
grave affliction runs its course, and death alights as a guest.
فإذا تجافَت عنكَ في فتكاتِهِ
فكثيرُها فِيما وَفيتَ قَليلُ
So if its calamities draw back from you amid Fate’s deadly assaults,
then however many have filled the life you have lived, they are few.
ولئن مَضى عهدُ التَّداني فانقَضى
وكذا الحياةُ فما انقضى التّأميلُ
And though the age of nearness has passed and ended,
life passes likewise—but hope has not ended.
ولِقاؤُنا إلا يكن في وَجهِ ال
مَعشُوقِ غُرّةً انَّهُ تحجيلُ
And our reunion—if its blaze is not upon its
beloved face—is merely white about the fetlocks.
Sol 5.6