Claude 2

  1. هُمْ في ضميْرِكَ خَيَّمُوا أم قَوَّضُوا

    ومِنَى جُفُوْنِكَ أَقْبَلُوا أم أَعْرَضُوا

    In your conscience did they camp or demolish

    From your eyelids did they come or turn away

  2. وهُمُ رِضاكَ من الزَّمانِ وأَهْلِهِ

    سَخِطُوا كما زَعَمَتْ وُشَاتُكَ أم رَضُوا

    And are they pleased with your era and its people

    As your whispers claimed or did they become angry

  3. أَهْوَاهُمُ وإنِ استمرَّ قِلاَهُمُ

    ومِنَ العجائبِ أنْ يُحَبَّ المُبْغَضُ

    I adore them even if their scarcity persists

    And it's wondrous that the hated is loved

  4. تَنْهَى النُّهَى عَنْهُمْ ويَأْمُرُنِي الهَوَى

    والنَّفْسُ تُعْرِضُ والمُنَى تَتَعرَّضُ

    You forbid me from them yet passion commands me

    My soul refuses yet my longing welcomes

  5. وفُوَيْقَ ذاكَ الماءِ من شُهُب القَنَا

    حَبَبٌ ومِنْ خُضْرِ الصَّوَارم عَرْمَضُ

    Like the water above the mountain’s peaks

    Affection and the greenest of blades abound

  6. والناسُ أَغْرِبَةٌ إذا قَايَسْتَهُمْ

    وأخو المُصَافاةِ الغرابُ الأَبْيَضُ

    People are so strange when you compare them

    Kin of harmony is the white raven