وَلَو لَقيتَ الَّذي تُكنى بِكُنيَتِهِ

فَاِسطاعَ مِنكَ أَبا الأَشبالِ لَاِنجَحَرا

If you were to meet the one whose epithet you bear,

And there emerged from you, O father of cubs, radiance,

يا اِبنَ الخَلائِفِ إِنَّ الخَيلَ قَد عَلِمَت

إِذا أَثارَت عَلى أَبطالِها القَتَرا

O son of caliphs, verily the horses have known

When they were roused against their champions,

أَنَّكَ أَوَّلُهُم طَعناً وَأَعطَفُهُم

وَراءَ مُرهَقِ أُخراهُم إِذا جَأَرا

That you are the first of them in stabbing, and the most skillful

Behind the heavily-armed, when they moaned,

وَصابِرٍ بِكَ لَولا ما رَأى صَنَعَت

يَداكَ بِالخَيلِ وَالأَبطالِ ما صَبَرا

And [you are] enduring, through you, were it not for what your hands wrought

Against the horses and champions, [he] would not have endured,

إِنَّ الوَليدَ أَبا العَبّاسِ أَورَثَهُ

مِنَ المَكارِمِ مِنها الرُجَّحُ الكُبَرا

Indeed, al-Walid, Abul 'Abbas, bequeathed to him

Of the noble traits, including innate excellence,

وَجَفنَةً مِثلَ حَوضِ البِئرِ مُترَعَةً

تَطرُدُ عَمَّن أَتاها الجوعَ وَالخَصَرا

And a palm like the basin of a well, copiously watered,

Which drives away from the one who comes to it hunger and leanness,

جَوفاءَ شيزِيَّةً مَلأى مُكَلَّلَةً

مِنَ السَنامِ تَرى مِن حَولِها عَكَرا

Hollow in the shin, filled, garlanded

With the waterbag straps - you see around it turbidity

مِنَ الرِجالِ وَأَيفاعٍ قَدِ اِحتُمِلوا

مُؤَزَّرينَ وَمِثلَ البَهمِ ما اِتَّزَرا

From the men and youths who have been carried

Girt, and not girt like the mindless camels.

كِلاهُما مُشبَعٌ رَيّانُ وارِدُهُ

الأَيِّبونَ إِلَيها وَالَّذي بَكَرا

Both of them sated, its comers and goers,

The petitioners to it and the early risers to it.

إِنَّ النَدى صاحِبَ العَبّاسِ حالَفَهُ

وَالجودَ هُم إِخوَةٌ قَد أَغرَقوا البَشَرا

Verily, generosity is the companion of al-'Abbas - he allied himself to it

And munificence - they are brothers who have drowned mankind in freshness

حَثياً بِأَيديهِمِ المَعروفَ نائِلُهُ

تَفتُرُ عَنهُ الصَبا وَالجودُ ما فَتَرا

Hastening with their hands benevolence to its obtainer

Which the mornings and munificence never flag.

إِنّا أَتَيناكَ إِذ حَلَّت بِساحَتِنا

مِنَ السِنينَ عَضوضٌ تَفلِقُ الحَجَرا

Verily we have come to you when there settled upon our land

From the years, ailments that split the rocks,

مُنتَجِعيكَ اِنتِجاعَ الغَيثِ إِذ وَقَعَت

أَشراطُهُ بِحَياً يُحيِي بِهِ الشَجَرا

Seeking you as the rain is sought when it falls,

Its harbinger with life by which he enlivens the trees,

إِنّا وَإِيّاكَ كَالدَلوِ الَّتي وَقَعَت

عَلى يَدَي مائِحٍ بِالحَمدِ ما شَعَرا

Verily us and you are like the bucket which fell

Into the hands of one drawing water, who praised, and was unaware,

مِن ماتِحٍ لَم يَجِد دَلواً فَيورِدَها

عَلَيهِ إِلّا مِنَ الحَمدِ الَّذي ظَهَرا

Of one drawing who did not find a bucket and lowered it

Upon him except from praise which appeared.

يا اِبنَ الوَليدِ أَلَيسَ الناسُ قَد عَلِموا

أَنَّكَ وَالسَيفَ إِسلامٌ لِمَن كَفَرا

O son of al-Walid, do not the people know

That you and the sword are submission for whoever disbelieved?