إلى الروم أصبو كلما أومض الخالُ

فاسكب دمعاً دون تسكابه الخال

To Rome I yearn whenever the mole flashes

So shed a tear without its mole being shed

وعن مدح داودٍ وطيب ثنائه

فلا القد يثنيني ولا الخد والخالُ

And of praising David and his sweet praise

Neither the stature sways me nor the cheek and mole

مشيرٌ إلى العليا أشار فطأطات

وأصبح مندكاً لهيبته الخالُ

A counselor gesturing to the Most High gestured so banners

Became submissive to his awe, the mole

مناصبها انقادت لاعتاب بابه

كما انقاد مرتاحاً إلى العطن الخالُ

Its positions surrendered to reproaching his door

As the relaxed one surrendered to the soft mole

وقد نالها إذ أوتي الحكم حكمةً

إلهيةً فصل الخطاب لها خالُ

And he attained it when given judgment, wisdom

Divine, so the definitive word for it was the mole

مليك ملاك الأمر والنهي كله

إليه انتهى والحكم في الأرض والخالُ

King, angel of all command and prohibition

To him it ended, and the rule on earth and mole

حكى نهر طالوتٍ ببسطة علمهِ

وفي فضله ذاك الفتى الماجد الخالُ

He told the river of Talut with the breadth of his knowledge

And of his superiority that glorious young mole

توسمّ عرافاً بسيماءِ دهره

فخوله النعمى وما كذب الخالُ

He perceived a soothsayer in the mark of his time

So he endowed him grace, and the mole did not lie

وصدق فيه ما تخيله النهى

وفيما سواه قلما يصدق الخالُ

And it was true in him what abstinence imagined

And in anything else, rarely does the mole speak true

فيا لرجالٍ من علاه تفرسوا

أغرّ عليه من نسيج العلى خال

So what men of highness who examined him

More wondrous than the creation of the Most High, a mole

إذا اعتركت أراوهم عرضت لهم

كتائب رأي من نهاه لها خالُ

When their opinions clashed, squadrons of perspective were presented to them

Whose limit for it was the mole

عصاميّ نفسٍ سودته جدوده

فلا الجد يجديه ولا العم والخالُ

Of a rebellious soul whom his ancestors darkened

Neither ancestry avails him nor uncle and mole

له العلم خدنٌ والكمال منادمٌ

وحسن السجايا والحجى الخال والخالُ

For him is knowledge a cheek and perfection a boon companion

And good traits and argument the mole and mole

هو الصدر منه القلب كالصخر في الوغى

إذا طاش في غلوائها السوكل الخالُ

He is the bosom, from him the heart like the rock in calamity

When her madness rages, the ardent mole

ووهم الليالي إن تمادى جماحها

فهمته الكبرى الشكيمة والخالُ

And the nights imagined if their assault persisted

The elder understood him, the rational and mole

توهم قوم إن يجاروه في العلى

فلم يجدهم ذاك التفكر والخالُ

Some people imagined if they contended with him in highness

But that reflector did not find them, and the mole

يشُقُّ على من لا يُشق غباره

رهان الذي عن شوطه عاقه الخال

It is hard on him whom his dust does not torment

The wager whose distance from its lap disgraced the mole

عفا اللَه عنه قد عفت بعد بعده

من اللذة الزورا المعالم والخالُ

May Allah forgive him, certainly after his passing

The landscapes and moles of false bliss have been forgiven

وهيهات ما دار الرصافة بعده ولا

الكرخ الا السبسبُ القفر الخال

And alas neither the Dar al-Rasafa nor the Karkh

Except the desolate bleak bare mole

ولكن بهذا العصر أنت كجنةٍ

بها تتباهى بروة الشام والخالُ

But in this age you are like a garden

With which the meadows of Syria and mole pride themselves

ورضوانها اليوم النجيب مشيرها

يحافظها مولىً عليها هو الخالُ

And its blessing today the noble counselor

Protects it, the Master over it is the mole

عظيم وقارٍ لو تراىء ليدبل

تصاغر منحطّاً وطاولهُ الخالُ

Great, dignified - if rivals appeared to him

Diminished, humbled and the mole dominated them

حماها حماء اللَه من كل ريبةٍ

تشين علاه فهو من ريبة الخالُ

He protected it with the protection of Allah from every suspicion

That disgraces its eminence, for he is of the mole's suspicion

فلا زال كلٌ منهما طود رفعةٍ

يلوح عليه مع تواضعه الخالُ

So they have not ceased, each a towering dune of loftiness

Glistening over it with his humility, the mole

وإني وإن كنت الرديف نظامهُ

لمبرقةٍ حسن الروي بها الخالُ

And if I, although the retinue of his system

Is a brilliant star - the mole narrated it beautifully

فذي معجزاتي ما أرى ابن كرامةٍ

يعارضها حتى يصاحبه الخالُ

So my miracles, I do not see the son of nobility

Rivaling them even to accompany the mole