سَقَى اللهُ رَمْلَيْ كوفَنَ الغيثَ حَافِلاً

بِهِ الضَّرْعُ مِنْ جَوْنِ الرَّبابَيْنِ وَابلِ

God watered my sand dunes, covering them with heavy rainclouds

The udder was filled by it, from the sides of the two cisterns

وَفَضَّتْ نَسيماً يُعْبِقُ التُّرْبَ نَشْرُهُ

بِها رَكَضاتُ الرِّيحِ بَيْنَ الخَمائِلِ

And it poured a breeze, whose diffusion perfumes the soil

With it, the prancing of the wind, between the swaying palms

وَلا زالَ فيها الظِّلُّ أَلْمَى تَلَفَّتتْ

إليهِ صَباً تَعتادُهُ بالأَصائِلِ

And its shade still touches gently, turned

Toward it the morning, accustomed to it at the thickets

مَواقِعُ عَرّاصِ الشَّآبيبِ تَحْتَمي

بِأَسْمَرَ رَقّاصِ الأَنابِيبِ ذابِلِ

The places of the doe’s pasturing hide

Beneath the dark dancer of the slender shoots, fading

وَيَأْوي إِلَيْها كُلُّ أَروعَ يَرْتَقِي

إِلى المَجْدِ حُرِّ البَأْسِ حُلْوِ الشَّمائِلِ

And to it returns every elegant gazelle, rising

To glory, fierce in valor, sweet in grace

لَبيقٍ بِتَصْريفِ القَناةِ إِذَا سَما

إِلى الحَرْبِ صُلْبِ العُودِ رِخْوِ الحَمائِلِ

Quick in steering the canal, when it rises

To battle, firm of shaft, loose of sheath

نَماهُ إِلى فَرْعَيْ أُمَيَّةَ عُصْبَةٌ

تَذِلُّ لَها طَوْعاً رِقابُ القبائِلِ

It grew under the protection of the tribe of Umayyah

To which voluntarily bow the necks of tribes

بِأَيْديهمُ تَهْتَزُّ ناصِيَةُ العُلا

وَيَحْتَلبُ العافِي أَفاوِيقَ نائِلِ

In their hands the forelock of elevation shakes

And the unblemished milks the udder of the attainer

سَأَكْفيهمُ الخَطْبَ الجَسيمَ بِصارِمٍ

تَمَطَّى المَنايا بَيْنَ غَرْبَيْهِ ناحِلِ

I will suffice them the grave affair with a sharp sword

That tastes deaths between its two edges, harvesting

وَأُلْثِمُ نَحْرَ القِرْنِ كُلَّ مُثَقَّفٍ

بَصيرٍ إِذا أَشْرَعْتُهُ بِالْمَقاتِلِ

And I stab the throat of every cultivated eloquent one

Insightful, when I unleash him with the killers

فَقَدْ بَسَطتْ باعي بِهِ خُنْزُوانَةٌ

تَضمَّنُ يَوْمَ الرَّوعِ رِيَّ المَناصِلِ

So I extended through it the purse of my protector

Which includes on the day of panic the flow of casualties