في جِوارِكُم الذَليلُ

وَحَدّي في رَجائِكُمُ الكَليلُ

In your company the lowly one,

And my limit in your hopes the little one.

نَصيبٌ مِن وِلايَتِكُم كَثيرٌ

وَحَظٌّ مِن عِنايَتِكُم قَليلُ

A ample share of your guardianship,

And a meager lot of your care.

لَمُختَلِفانِ مِن حالَيَّ مَهما

أَجالَ الفِكرَ بَينَهُما مُجيلُ

Two differing in state no matter

How the thoughts move beautifully between them

أَتَحيا أَنفُسُ الآمالِ فيكُم

وَلي أَثناءَها أَمَلٌ قَتيلُ

Do the selves of hopes live in you

While for me among them hope murdered?

وَأَعجَبُ حادِثٍ نَظَري لَدَيكُم

إِلى غَلَلِ النَجاحِ وَبي غَليلُ

And the strangest incident I see near you

To the shackles of success while I shackled

وَقِدحي في وِدادِكُمُ مُعَلّىً

وَباعي في اِعتِمادِكُمُ طَويلُ

My dedication in your affection elevated

And my reliance on your support prolonged

وَكائِن لي ثَناءٌ راحَ يَثني

إِلَيهِ العِطفَ مَجدُكُمُ الأَثيلُ

And there was for me praise that went praising

To it the gentleness of your eternal glory contends

تُنافِسُهُ الرِياضُ مُنَوِّراتٍ

تَنَفَّسَ عَن نَوافِحِها الأَصيلُ

The meadows, illuminated,

whose blowing sighs the genuine

أَبا الحَزمِ الزَمانُ بِأَن تُثَنّى

إِذا عُدَّت فَواضِلُكُم بَخيلُ

O Father of Decisiveness, time to be bent

When your superior virtues seem stingy

عَلَوتَ النَجمَ إِذ مَلَّ المُساعي

وَحُزتَ الخَصلَ إِذ كَلَّ الرَسيلُ

You rose above the star when hopes receded

And seized the quality when the envoys failed

رَأَيتُ الناسَ ما أَصبَحتَ فيهِم

بَلاءُ اللَهِ عِندَهُمُ جَميلُ

I saw the people what you have become among them

God’s affliction amongst them beautiful

وَماءُ العَيشِ بَينَهُمُ فَضيضٌ

وَظِلُّ الأَمنِ فَوقَهُمُ ظَليلُ

And the water of life amongst them brackish

and the shade of safety above them slender

وَلَو فَقَدوكَ لا فَقَدوا حَواهُم

مَرادٌ مِن زَمانِهِمِ وَبيلُ

And if they lost you, they lost not their lives

An intention from their times and urine

وَشاقَ نُفوسَهُم رَسمٌ مُحيلٌ

مِنَ الدُنيا وَعَهدٌ مُستَحيلُ

And a disabling order from the world has wearied their selves

And a promise from it impossible

فَخاصِر دَولَةً تَفنى اللَيالي

وَلَم يُلمِم بِساحَتِها مُديلُ

So move a state the nights destroy

And the deluges did not gather in its courtyard

وَلا زالَت نِبالُ الدَهرِ تُصمي

عُداتَكَ أَيُّها المَلِكُ النَبيلُ

And the arrows of fate did not stop hitting

Your tools, O noble king

أَأَيأَسُ مِن مُساعَفَةِ اللَيالي

وَأَنتَ إِلى نِهايَتِها سَبيلُ

Do I despair of the duplication of nights?

While you are on its conclusion a way