لا استوحشت لكَ أرْبعٌ وقصورُ

وأقام ملكُكَ ما أَقام ثَبِيرُ

I did not feel lonely without you for four nights,

And your kingdom remained as solid as granite rock.

واستبهجت أُنْساً ديارك واكتسى

بك حسنَ حالٍ قصرُك المعمور

I found joy in your homelands, which were adorned,

With the beauty of your prosperous palace.

كادت لغيبة ليلةٍ أرجاؤه

إذ لم تَحُلَّ بها إليك تطير

Its corners almost wilted for the absence of a night,

When you did not come to it on a quick journey.

وشكا كما يشكو المحبّ صبابة

وبدا عليك له أسىً وزفير

It complained like a lover complains of yearning,

Revealing for you a deep grief and sighing.

فقدتْ جميعَ كمالها الأرضُ التي

خلَّفتها فغدت تكاد تمور

The land you left behind lost all its perfection,

It almost crumbled into debris after you were gone.

بك تستضِئ الشمس في إشراقها

والبدرُ في أفُق السماء يُنِير

The sun is illuminated by you at its rising,

And the moon shines in the sky's horizon.

عجباً لحيّ لم تنله بلحظةٍ

عيناك كيف يروح وهو بصير

How amazing that the living whom your eyes,

Did not glance upon for a moment can still see!

يأيُّها الملِك العزيز المصطفى

والقائم المستخلَف المنصور

O noble chosen king, endowed with success,

Appointed ruler, and given triumph!

سقياً لأرضٍ زرتها وحللتها

قد حلَّها التقديس والتطهير

A waterer of a land you visited and lodged,

Sanctified and purified by your presence.

نالت بفضلك في العلا سَرَدوسُ ما

قد نال من فضل لموسى الطورُ

By your grace, Mount Sinai attained what,

Mount Tur attained by the favor of Moses.

لو أنها تدري وتعقِل لانبرت

شوقاً تحجُّك أرضُها وتزور

If it could know and understand, your land would set out,

Yearning to perform pilgrimage, and visit you.

ولقد شكا القصر الذي خلَّفته

من ليلةٍ ما يشتكي المهجور

The palace you left behind complained,

Of a night - it does not complain when abandoned!

وتضاءلت أحجارُه وأقلُّ ما

شكتِ الفِراقَ جنادل وصخور

Its stones shrank, and the least,

That the corridors and rocks complained of was separation.

وشكا تغيّر قلبِه وفؤادِه

فيه صغير مخلص وكبير

It complained of the change of its heart and innermost being.

Both young and old sincere souls.