أَترى يؤوب زمانُنا
غضّاً بأودية الغَضْا
Will our time return youthful,
Flowing in the valleys of bloom,
ويعود فينا مقبلاً
مَنْ كان عنّا معرضا
And will he who turned from us
Come back to us welcoming?
قمرٌ بصفحة خدِّهِ
عَضْبُ المَحاسنِ مُنتَضى
A moon, whose cheek dimple
Is the seat of beauty,
مَلّكْتُهُ قلبي وكمْ
رَجَعَ الّذي قد أقرضا
I gave him my heart, how much
He took, who took as loan.
وَلَقَد أَقول وَكم أرى
عَجباً قضاهُ من قضى
And I say, how much I see
Of wonders fate has ruled.
أَنتَ الصّحيحُ فكمْ تكو
ن لمن يحبّك مُمرضا
You are perfection, so how could
One who loves you fall ill?
وإذا عُشِقتَ فلا تزا
لُ لأهلِ عِشقِك مُبغضا
And if you are loved, do not
Remain still hated by your lover.
بَدّلتَ رَأسي أسوداً
لمّا هجرتَ بأبيضا
You changed my hair black
When you left white.
ما ضَرّ رامي مُهجتي
لَو أنّه ليَ أنبضا
No harm if my love's arrow-pierced one
Had in him life remaining.
وَمجدّدَ الإعراضِ لو
قبل التلاقي أعرضا
And renewing disdain, if before
Reunion, turned away again.
مَن مبلغٌ عنِّي الرئي
سَ مُصرِّحاً ومُعرِّضا
Who will tell the chief
Announcing and refusing me?
أنتَ الّذي لمّا ظفر
تُ بودِّه نِلتُ الرّضا
You are the one who, when winning
His love, I gained contentment.
وغفرتُ من جُرمِ الزّما
نِ لأجله ما قد مضى
And I forgave time's sin
For his sake, what had passed.
أَبناءُ ما سرجيسَ ما
زالوا الكفاةَ النُّهَّضا
The valiant sons of Sargis
Remain the excellent aids.
السابقين إلى الفضا
ئلِ كلَّ سارٍ رُكَّضا
The early ones, to the merits
Every swift goer raced.
أُسْدٌ تراهمْ للفرا
ئِسِ في الفضائل رُبّضا
Lions that you see them to the cavalry
In merits ever ready.
وإذا رمى منهمْ فتىً
يوماً أصاب فأغرضا
And if a youth of them one day
Threw, he hit and pierced.
وَإِذا اِستَغاثَ بِهمْ جري
حٌ في وغىً سدّوا الفضا
And if a wounded man cried out
To them in tumult, they barred the way
بصواهلٍ وذوابلٍ
وصوارمٍ مثلِ الإضا
With swords and spears
And blades like lightning flash.
حوشيتُ أنْ أسلاكمُ
وأملّكُمْ أو أُعرِضا
I fear to make you
My friends, or refuse you.
أو أنْ أُرى بسواكُمُ
متبدّلاً متعوّضا
Or to see in your absence
One changed or substituted.
لا حال ودٌّ بيننا
عُمْرَ الزّمان ولا اِنقضى
No state of affection between us
Will time or end erase.
وخباءُ ما أضحى وأم
سى بيننا ما قُوِّضا
And the tent of what dawned and darkened
Between us, nothing demolished.
وَإِذا أقمتُ فلا أبا
لي مَن يرحّلُهُ القَضا
And if I stay, I care not
Who fate takes him.
خُذْها يسوق بها الوِدا
دُ إليك سوقاً مُجهِضا
Take it, leading with it
To you a barren escort.
تَكسو الّذي لم يَعْرَ من
ه ولا نضارة مَن نَضا
It will clothe what was not graced
From it, nor freshness gained.
لو رامها منِّي سوا
كَ لبات منها مُنفِضا
If but for you it came from me
It would spend the night cast off.
