إِذ نَحنُ نُخبِرُ بِالحَواجِبِ بَينَنا
ما في النُفوسِ وَنَحنُ لَم نَتَكَلَّمِ
When, with our eyebrows, we tell each other
what lies within our souls, though we have not spoken—
وَلَقَد رَأَيتُكِ في المَنامِ ضَجيعَتي
وَلَثَمتُ مِن شَفَتَيكِ أَطيَبَ مَلثَمِ
Indeed, I saw you in a dream, lying beside me,
and kissed upon your lips the sweetest kiss.
وَغَدٌ وَبَعدَ غَدٍ كِلا يَومَيهِما
يُبدي لَكِ الخَبَرَ الَّذي لَم تَعلَمي
Tomorrow and the morrow after—both those days—
will reveal to you the news you had not known.
وَالخَيلُ تَعلَمُ أَنَّنا فُرسانُها
وَالعاطِفونَ بِها وَراءَ المُسلَمِ
The horses know that we are their horsemen,
and that we wheel them back after a comrade abandoned to the foe.
أَسلابُ يَومِ قُراقِرٍ كانَت لَنا
تُهدى وَكُلُّ تُراثِ أَبيَضَ خِضرِمِ
The spoils of the day of Qarqarā were ours,
bestowed upon us, as was every legacy of a noble, munificent lord.
تَطَأُ الكُماةَ بِنا وَهُنَّ عَوابِسٌ
وَطءَ الحِصادِ وَهُنَّ لَسنَ بِصُيَّمِ
With us astride, they trample armored champions, grim-faced,
as harvested grain is trodden—though they are not fasting.
نَعصي إِذا كَسَرَ الطِعانُ رِماحَنا
في المُعلَمينَ بِكُلِّ أَبيَضَ مِخذَمِ
We remain defiant when spear-fighting shatters our lances,
among warriors marked by battle-signs, with every keen white blade.
وَإِذا الحَديدُ عَلى الحَديدِ لَبِسنَهُ
أَخرَجنَ نائِمَةَ الفِراخِ الجُثَّمِ
And when they don iron upon iron,
they drive out the sleeping mother of the huddled nestlings.
Sol 5.6