طَرَحْنَا فوقَ غارِبِها الزِّمانا

فأَسْلَمَها العَرَارُ إِلى الخُزَامَى

We pitched it above the setting of time

So the bare land surrendered it to the protectors

رَعَتْ بالجِزْعِ أَسْنِمَةَ الرَّوابي

فجاءَتْ وَهْيَ تحمِلُها سَنَاما

It grazed with separation the pastures of the hilltops

So it came carrying them high

وما بَرِحَتْ تراوحُ أَو تُغادِي

جَمِيماً في أَو جِمَاما

It didn’t stop pacing back and forth or wandering

Silently or speaking

تَحُطُّ به النّعائِمُ مُتْأَقَاتٍ

تَرَجْرَجُ فوقَ أَعناقِ النُّعامى

The pleasures descend upon it qualified

Bubbling over the necks of the ostriches

إِلى أَن عارضَتْنَا فاسْتَرَبْنَا

أَكُوماً نحنُ ننظرُ أَمْ إِكاما

Until we encountered and were on the lookout

A heap - were we gazing or blind?

وقالَتْ والخيامُ صَبَاحُ عَشْرٍ

لِلَيْلَتِها أَلاَ حَيِّ الخياما

And she said, while the tents were morning drink

For her night, behold the life of the tents!

فعُجْنَا بالأَراكِ على أَرَاكٍ

صَدَحْنَا في ذوائبِهِ حَماما

So we kneaded with the boxes upon boxes

As we clamored through its strands like doves

ومِلْنا للعقيقِ فقام جِسْمِي

به يَقْرَا على قَلْبِي السَّلاما

And we were done with trinkets, so my body stood

Reciting peace upon my heart

طرحنا العَجْزَ عن أَعجازِ عَيْشٍ

نُوَشِّحُها على الحَزْمِ الحِزاما

We pitched aside the inability from the wonders of life

That we tighten around the belt of resolve

ونُوسِعُها بأَيدِي الوَخْدِ مَخْضاً

تُطيرُ الريح زُبْدَتَهُ لُغَاما

And we widen it with the hands of affection withdrawn

So the wind scatters its foam into wisps

وندفَعُ بالسُّرَي منها قِسِيّاً

فتقذفُ بالنَّوى مِنَّا سِهاما

And we push away the sourness from it forcefully

So it casts with the seeds from us arrows

ونُعْمِلُ كالأَهِلَّةِ ضامراتٍ

لنبلُغَ فوقها القَمَرَ التَّماما

And we work like crescent moons waning

To reach over it the fullness of the moon

ببابِ الفاضلِ المِفْضالِ حَطَّتْ

فأَطلَقَها وَأَقْعَدَنَا وقاما

At the door of the virtuous Excellency it halted

So he unleashed it, seated us, and stood up

تُجَنِّبُها الخوافِيَ والذَُّنَابَي

وَتُورِدُها القوداِمَ والقُدَامَى

It avoids the sly and the talebearers

And it leads the leaders and the chaste

كَأَنَّا إِذْ قطعناهم إِليهِ

تَعَسَّفْنَا إِلى الصُّبْحِ الظَّلاما

It's as if when we cut them off to him

We imposed upon the dawn the darkness

يَحُطُّ لِثامَ نائِلِهِ فيبدُو

وقد عَقَدَ الحياءُ له لِثاما

He undoes the wrap of his attainer, so appears

As bashfulness has tied for him a wrap

ومِنْ أَحكامِهِ أَنْ ليسَ يُبْقَي

على الأَحرارِ للدهرِ احْتِكاما

And of his rulings, that he does not maintain

Over the free for fate judgment

شَفَتْ وكَفَتْ فصائِلُهُ فلولا

جفونُ الحُورِ أُعْدِمَتِ السَّقَاما

His dangling strands cured and sufficed so if not for

The eyelids of the maidens, illness would be eradicated

وأَسْكَرَنَا بَيَاناً دامَ حَتَّى

عَجِبْنَا كيفَ خَدَّرْنا المُدَاما

And blessed is he who saw the bodies idle

So he collared them with his mighty hands

معانٍ تجلسُ الفُصَحاءُ عنها

وتسمَعُها خواطِرُهُمْ قِياما

I say to him as his hands revived

Bones from its first bones

يتيماتٌ تُصَدِّقُ في عُلاهُ

مَقَالَةَ مَنْ دعاهُ أَبا اليتامى

The attributes of glory refused that I gather

Except through your generosity, to be gathered

ونُعْمَى مَنْ رَأَى الأَجسامَ عُطْلاً

فَقَلَّدَها أَيادِيَهُ الجِساما

And your celebration in me leaves no worry

Nor in what concerns me, any concern

أَقولُ له وقد أَحْيَتْ يَدَاهُ

عِظاماً من أَوائله عِظاما

But you have begun with it a nectar

I compete to add for it the seal

أَبَتْ لِيَ أَنْ أُضامَ صفاتُ مَجْدٍ

أَبيَ لولا سَمَاحُكَ أَنْ يُضَاما

وما أَبقي احتفالُكَ فيَّ هَمّاً

ولا فيما يخصُّنِيَ اهتماما

ولكنْ قد بَدَأْتَ به رَحِيقاً

أُنَافِسُ أَنْ تُضِيفَ له الخِتاما