عليك ذِمامُ اللّهِ ما ذَرَّ شارِقٌ

لقد برمتْ نفسي وطالَ اهْتمامُها

The reins of God are upon you as long as a morning star shines,

My soul has become despondent and its worries prolonged,

وكيف رِضاها في المَقامِ كئيبةً

وأنت مُرجَّاها وهذا كلامُها

And how can it be content in this gloomy stance,

While you are its hope, and this is its word,

فَقُدْها إِلى ما تبتغيهِ فانها

طليحةُ عَزْمٍ في يديكَ زمامُها

Guide it to what it seeks, for it

Is compliant to determination in your hands are its reins,

وما أنا اِلا الأرضُ هامدةً وفي

يَدِ ابْن طِرادٍ قَطْرها وغمامُها

And I am nothing but the abject earth, and in

The hands of the son of Tiraad are its drops and its clouds.

وما أستزيد العزْم منه وقد هَمَت

سحائبُ جودٍ منه جَمٌّ سِجامُها

And I do not seek more determination from it when

The clouds of his generosity have poured forth their abundant rain.

ولكن لأُخْرى أرتجي حسن رأيه

ليحلو لنفسي في ذَراهُ مُقامُها

But for another I hope for the excellence of his opinion

So that my soul finds its stance with him sweet.

وأقْنيهِ غُراً من فَصيح مَحامدٍ

حَقيقٌ على مثل الوزير اغْتناُها

And provide him a loaf from an eloquent one full of praises -

A right upon the likes of the minister is to enrich him.

هو المرءُ وصَّالٌ إِلى الصعب عزمه

اذا جَذَّ آربَ الرجال اعْتزامُها

He is the man who is determined to the difficult -

When the millstones of men are set in motion by his determination.

فلا زال يسعى للمعالي وأرضُه

طوائحُ أجسام الأعادي وهامُها

So he does not stop striving for the heights while his land

Is the resting place for the bodies of enemies and their zeal.