نتيجة آداب وطبع مهذب
أطال مداه في البيان وأعرضا
The fruit of letters and a cultivated nature,
whose range in eloquence stretched far and wide;
ولا مثل بِكرٍ باكرتني آنفا
كزورة خل بعدما كان أعرضا
nothing compares to the virgin poem that came early to me just now,
like a dear friend’s visit after he had kept away.
هي الروضة الغناء أينع زهرها
تناظر حسناً مُذهباً مفضضا
It is the luxuriant garden, its flowers come into bloom,
vying in gilded and silvered beauty;
أو الغادة الحسناء راقت فينقضي
مدى العمر في وصفي لها وما ارتضى
or the lovely, graceful maiden who so charms that
a lifetime would end as I described her, yet my description would never suffice.
Sol 5.6