هِيَ ظبية في صورة الإِنسان

فَاسأل يجبك الجيد وَالعينان

She is a gazelle in the form of a human

So ask the beautiful one with the two eyes

نَزلت عَلى سَقط العذيب فَراعها

صَوت اليَراع وَنغمة العيدان

She descended upon the lowland of adhb and it startled her

The sound of alarm and the melody of the flexuous branches

وَاستنشقت ريح البشام وَشاقَها

شَبح الرُبى وَنَوافج الكُثبان

She inhaled the scent of the north wind and it perturbed her

The specter of the ruins and the sand dunes

فتلفتت كَالظَبي فارق إلفه

وَرنت كَما هِيَ عادة الغُزلان

So she looked around like a gazelle separated from its herd

And cried out as it is the habit of antelopes

وَتَذكرت عَيشاً لَها في جيرة

ضَرَبت قِبابهم بِذات البان

And she remembered a life she had in a neighborhood

Whose tents were of the same fabric

شوس إِذا اِشتَد اللقا فَضياغم

يَجرون جَري السَيل في الميدان

Valiant men, when the war intensifies they charge

Like a torrent in a race course

وَإِذا اِنتَضوا أَسيافهم في مَوقف

حَققتها شعلاً مِن النيران

And when they unsheathe their swords for battle

It makes it flare up like fires

نَزلوا بِقارعة الطَريق وَشَيدوا

تلكَ الجِنان الغُر للضيفان

They descended at the side of the road and built

Those beautiful gardens for guests

قَوم يمانيون إِلا أَنَّهُم

قَد صاهروا الأَشراف مِن عَدنان

Yemeni people, except they

Have intermarried with the nobility of Adnan

من فتية شَكت رُؤوس رِماحهم

تيجان كسرى صاحب الإيوان

Some young men whose spear heads

Reached the crowns of Chosroes, lord of the palace

جَعَلوا الدُروع ثِيابهم وَتَعوضوا

حَوزاتهم بَدلاً عن التيجان

They made shields their clothes and substituted

Their girdles with crowns instead

وَبمهجين أَخوين مِن ساداتهم

عَزماً عَلى البَيداء يصطحبان

And with two brother kings from their masters

Heading to the desert they travel

أسدان قَد وَلعا بِصَيد فَريسة

وَتَعودا لِتطاعن الفُرسان

Two lions accustomed to hunting prey

And stabbing knights

في مهمه حسد السَماء مَحله

إِذ في ذراه أَشرق القمران

In an important place the sky envied its location

For in its lands the two moons shone

وَالبر يَضحك إِذ جَرى في عَرضه

بَحران بِالياقوت وَالمُرجان

And the land laughs as two seas flowed through it

Seas of rubies and coral

بَحر سُليمان الإمام مَحله

وَقَرينه السُلطان بَحر ثان

Suleiman the Imam’s sea in its place

And its peer, Sultan’s sea the second

غُصنان قَد سقيا بِماء واحد

فَتشَابها وَتشاكل الغُصنان

Two branches watered from the same source

So they resembled and the two branches matched

مِن دَوحة عَربية يَمنية

وَالفرع مِنها باسق القُضبان

From an Arabic Yemeni palm tree

With its blooming towering trunk

قَد أنشئا لُطفاً فَذَلِكَ دَأبه

فَك الأَسير وَذا لِفَك العاني

They were brought up with kindness that is its way

Freeing the captive and the same for saving the starved

كُل إِذا أَبصَرته شبهته

بِأَخيه وَالشَيئان يَشتبهان

Whenever you see one you liken him to

His brother and the two things are indistinguishable

إِن رُمت إِدراك النَوال أَخا الهُدى

فَانزل عَلى سَلمان أَو سُلطان

If you wish to attain good tidings, brother of guidance

Then descend upon Suleiman or Sultan

فَرداً وَلا تَجمَع هديت فَإِنَّني

أَخشى عَلَيك إِذاً مِن الطوفان

Individually and do not combine the gift for I

Fear for you otherwise from the deluge

هب أَنتَ تحسن عَوم بَحر واحد

أَتَعوم وَالبَحران يَلتَقيان

Suppose you can swim one sea well

Can two seas meeting be swum?

وَيشيم طَرفك ضوء بَدر واحد

أَيشيم وَالبَدران مُجتَمِعان

And your eye bear the light of one full moon

Can two moons combined be borne?

وَتطيق حَمل أَبي قَييس وَحده

أَيُطاق مَضموماً إِلى ثَهلان

And you endure carrying only Abi Quais

Can combined with Sahel be tolerated?

ما أَنتَ مثلي إِذ لَقيتهما فَلي

صَبر الكِرام وَنجدة الفتيان

You are not like me when I met them both so patience

Of the generous and rescue by the young men befell me

يا باذِلي بَدر النُقود وَحامِلي

عبء الوُفود بِسائر الأَزمان

O you who give freely the full moons of money and bear

The burden of delegations for all times

لِلّه دركما وَدر أَبيكُما

مغني العفاة وُمشبع الجوعان

God bless you two and your father

Who sings to nourish the destitute and feeds the hungry

فَخُذا بِحَق أَبيُكما مِن مدحتي

نَظماً كَنَظم قَلائد العقيان

So take from my eulogy in your father’s right

Compositions like necklaces of peridot

طَوقت جيدكما بِهِ لأزينه

بِكُما فَيَبلغ غاية الإحسان

I have collared your necks with it to adorn it

With you two so it reaches the utmost beauty

غَض جَرى في طَبعه لَما بَدا

ماء الصبا وَطَراوة الشُبان

Of rough nature for when the water of youth appeared

And the innocence of adolescence he flowed

ما شانه لكن الحَضارة إِذ غَدا

مِن شاعر يعزى إِلى قَحطان

His status but civilization when he becomes

A poet attributed to Qahtan

مِن مَعشر نَزَلوا العشارة بُرهة

وَالآن قَد نَزَلوا عَلى بغدان

From a group who descended Al Asharah for a while

And now have descended upon Baghdad

ما شانهم ضد الغِنى بَل زانَهُم

دَرس العُلوم وَنَغمة القُرآن

Their status not against wealth but it adorned them

Lessons of sciences and tunes of the Quran And attributing him to your great glory

وَكَفى بنسبته لِعالي مَجدكم

شَرَفاً عَلى الأَمثال وَالأَقران

Is enough nobility over peers and equals

Called Hussein and he by your eulogy

يدعى الحُسين وَإِنَّهُ بِمديحكم

يُدعى بِنابغة الوَرى حسان

Is called the genius of the world Hassan