كَم والِدٍ يَحرِمُ أَولادَهُ

وَخَيرُهُ يَحظى بِهِ الأَبعَدُ

How many a parent denies his children

While strangers enjoy this bounty unfurled

كَالعَينِ لا تُبصِرُ ما حَولَها

وَلَحظُها يُدرِكُ ما يبعدُ

Like the eye that sees not what surrounds it

Yet its glance can reach what's distantly furled