جادَ رَبعاً حَلَلتَهُ يا همامُ

مِن نَدى كَفِّكَ العَزيزُ رِهامُ

The dwelling where you alighted was watered, O Hammām,

by the bounty of your palm—that precious, gentle rain.

فَقَبيحٌ إِن اِستَزَدت لَهُ صَو

بَ غمامٍ وَأَنتَ فيهِ غمامُ

How shameful, then, if you sought for it more of the down—

—pour of a cloud, when you yourself are a cloud within it.

ما بِأَرضٍ لَم تَبدُ فيها صَباح

ما بِدارٍ حَلَلتُ فيها ظَلامُ

No land where you have not appeared possesses a morning;

no house in which you dwell possesses darkness.

وَإِذا ما حَلَلتَ في بَلَدٍ فَهُ

وَ جَميعُ الدُنيا وَأَنتَ الأَنامُ

And whenever you alight in a country, then it—

—is the whole world, and you are all humankind.

سَؤدُدٌ عِندَهُ التَفاخُرُ ذُلُّ

وَنَدى عِندَهُ الكِرامُ لِئامُ

Yours is a lordly eminence beside which boasting is abasement,

and a generosity beside which the noble are base.

وَسَجايا كَأَنَّها الرَوضُ إِلا

أَنَّها لِلعَدُوِّ مَوتٌ زُؤامُ

And qualities as though they were a flowering meadow—except

that to the enemy they are swift death.

أَنتُم أَنفَسُ العُلا يا بَني وَر

قاءُ وَالناسُ كُلُّهُم أَجسامُ

You are the very souls of high glory, O sons of War—

—qāʾ; all other people are merely bodies.

سَخطُ المال مِن أَكفِكُم ما

حَمَدَتهُ السُيوفُ وَالأَقلامُ

Wealth’s displeasure with your hands is what

the swords and pens have praised.