بشقيقِ وَجنَتيكَ الجنَّي وآسها

عالج لواعجَ عاشقيكَ وآسها

With your cheek and heavenly gardens and their virtues

Cure the burning passions of your lovers and ease them

واسمح بإرسالِ الرُّقادِ لمقلةٍ

أهدت إلى جفنيكَ كلَّ نُعاسِها

And allow the sending of slumber to an eyelid

That has granted its every drowsiness to your eyelids

يا فاضحَ الغُصن الرَّطيبِ بقامةٍ

تهفُو ذَوائبُها على ميَّاسِها

O you who expose the fragrant branch with a stature

Whose tresses flutter over its bending

ومسدِّداً من مقلتيهِ أسهماً

في مُهدتي وَصلَت إلى بُرجاسِها

And who aims arrows from his eyes

That reached in my admiration to its fortresses

أنسيتَ بالخضراءِ أيَّاماً زضهت

بكمالِ بهجتها على أجناسِها

You forgot days in the greenness that were delightful

With the perfection of its joy over its kinds

ورياضِ أربعها وحُمرةِ وردها

وغياضِ أنهُرها وخُضرةِ آسِها

And gardens of four and the redness of its roses

And the thickets of its rivers and the greenness of its trunks

لله عَصرُ شبيبةٍ قضيَّتُه

في مرجها وبجانبي مقياسها

By Allah a youthful era I spent

In its meadows and by my side its scale

وبأيمنِ العلمين دارٌ بدِّلت

عرصاتُها الإيحاشَ من إيناسِها

And on the right side a house I substituted

Whose flats the dwarf-palm substituted from its jujube

عرَّضتُ فيها بالرَّكابِ مُسلِّما

عن بَدرِ مشرقها وريم كناسِها

I presented myself at it on horseback submitting

From the full moon of its sunrise and the edge of its threshing-floor

وأَطلتُ في اطلالِها مَكثي فَما

عَطفت عليَّ الشُّعثُ في أدراسِها

And I stayed long in contemplating its ruins but

The disheveled did not show affection to me in its homes

وأبيكَ ما بَخلت بِردِّ جَوابها

لو أنَّ داراً خبَّرت عَن نَاسِها

And I wish not your father was stingy in answering it

If a house informed him about its people