حيَّتك من وَجَناتها بشقيقها

وجلت عليكَ مُدامةً من رِيقها

Her greetings reached you from her branches with her anemone,

And she knelt to you offering a deep draft from her saliva,

وتبسَّمت لكَ عن ثناياً لم تَشِم

عينٌ كبارقها ولا كَعقيقها

And she smiled at you from between lips that did not scent,

An eye like her lightning nor her ruby.

وحبتكَ من رشفاتها بسلافةً

ما فضَّ مُرتَشِفٌ خِتامَ رحيقها

And she loved you from her balconies with intimacy,

That no one has broken the seal of her nectar.

وتعطَّفت لك بانةً غيرُ الصبا

لم يحضَ قبلك بانعطافِ رشيقها

And she bent to you coquettishly unlike the dawn,

None before you enjoyed the bending of her slender figure.

ورنت بأجفانٍ إليك فَواترٍ

بأخي الهوى الدنيا تضيقُ لضيقها

And she called to you with languorous eyelids,

My brother passion, the world is too narrow for her confines.

يا أهلَ رامةَ ما الجمالُ وما الهوى

إلاَّ لشائقٍ ريمكم ومَشوقها

O people of Ramah, what is beauty and what is passion,

But for one who desires you and whom you inflame?

نفحتكم بعبيرها ريحُ الصَبا

ونحتكم ديمُ الحيا ببرُوقها

The morning breeze breathed its perfume upon you,

And the course of life eternally sculpted you with its lightning.

فسقت ملاعبَكم بأوطفَ تزدهي

منه بزهرِ رياضها وأنيقها

It irrigated your playgrounds with the gentlest rain,

With the blossoms of its meadows and the most delicate plants.

غيثٌ بسيب نَدى محمدِ صالحٍ

تشبيهُ واكفِ سحبهِ ودفوقها

A rain whose exhalation of Muhammad Salih,

Resembling lowering clouds and their outpouring.

هو خير من رضعَ المكارمَ درَّها

ورعى بها مُذ كان فرضَ حقوقها

He is better than one who suckled generosity, her breasts,

And shepherded her rights since she was obligatory.

مَن مثلهُ وهو ابنُها البرُّ الذي

ما همَّ لمحةَ ناظرٍ بعقوقها

Who is like him? He is her righteous son, who

Never thought of rebelling against her authority.

ملكٌ تجلَّى للبريَّة فخرهُ ال

سامي تجلِّي الشمس عند شروقها

A king who appeared to mankind in his pride

Sublime like the rising sun at daybreak.

فإذا تكرَّم كانَ فارجَ ضيقها

وإذا تكلَّم كانَ ضيقَ حلوقها

So if he is generous, he relieves her distress,

And if he speaks, her throats are too narrow for her breath.

تفدي أناملَه العريقةَ في الندى

أيدٍ من اللؤمِ انتساجُ عُروقها

His noble fingers redeem her in the dew,

From the hands of villains weaving her veins.

ورثَ العُلى من سابقينَ لغايةٍ

ما للبريَّة مطمعٌ للحوقها

He inherited the heights from predecessors, to a limit

That mankind has no hope of reaching.

خُلقت كِراماً فهي تقتسم الثنا

والحمدَ بين جديرِها وخليقها

She created him generous, so he shares glory,

And praise between the deserving and the able.

شرَعت طريقَ الجودِ وهو مشى به

فمشى المرامُ وراءه بطريقها

He took the path of generosity and walked it,

So desire followed behind him on its path.

ولدتهُ ثُمَّ أبا الأمين فأحرزت

بها ثناء عدوّها وصديقها

She bore him, then Abu Al-Ameen, thus winning

The praise of her enemy and her friend.

بلغا السماءَ عُلاً وزادَ محمدٌ

شرفاً سما فيه على عيّوقها

They both reached the heavens in nobility, and Muhammad

Ascended in it, surpassing her peaks.

أحيت أناملهُ العفاةَ ومن رأى

لُججاً يكون بها نجاة غريقها

His talented fingers revived the prostrate, and whoever

Sees ways of salvation in them, is saved from drowning.

كرمٌ كغادية السحاب تُزينهُ

لمعاتُ بشرٍ كالتماع بُروقها

A generosity like pouring rainclouds, adorned

By flashes of good news, like its flashing.

يا من تفرَّعَ في الذُرى من دوحةٍ

تُجنى المكارمُ من ثمارِ وَريقها

O you from whom generosity branched out in the lands, from a palm tree

That reaps generosity from the fruits of its seedlings.

من دوحة الشرفِ الذي بثرى العُلى

وَشَجَت قديماً سارياتُ عروقها

From the palm tree of honor that the ground of heights

Nurtured long ago, its roots sprawling.

أهدى لك الفرحَ الإِلهُ مخلّداً

وكساكَ من حُلل الثنا برقيقها

God granted you lasting joy,

And clothed you in the gowns of glory with its finery.

هذي المسرَّةُ كم أقرَّت أعيناً

ولأعينٍ كانت قذًى في مُوقها

This joy, how it delighted eyes,

And eyes that were sore with pain in their sockets.

وعد الزمانُ بأن يزيلَ بها جوى

الأحشاء فاشتاقت إلى تحقيقها

Time promised to dispel with it the burning thirst in breasts,

So they longed for its fulfillment.

خَفقَت بها شَوقاً وحينَ وَفى بها

سكنت وقرَّت بعد طول خُفوقها

They fluttered with yearning for it, and when it was fulfilled,

They settled and rested after prolonged twitching.

وغدا الزمانُ وقد ترشَّف راحها

نشوانَ بين صَبوحِها وغَبوقِها

And time passed as it was honored tranquilly

Between its dawn and the darkening of its evenings.

فليُهنينكَ سائغُ الطرب الذي

لك قد أغصَّ الحاسدينَ بريقها

So may the pleasing rapture that

Flooded the envious with its spit make you happy.

واسعد بعرس محمدٍ حسن العُلى

وأخي النُهى عبد الحسين شقيقها

And may the wedding of the eminent Muhammad

And my brother, the guardian Abdul Hussein, his sibling, delight you.

داما بظلّكَ رافهينِ ولم تزل

تَغلي حُشاشة منأبى بحريقها

May they remain in your shade, well off, and may

The spark of enmity not be kindled against them.

فبنوك ثمَّ بنو أخيك جميعُهم

تأوي الورَى منهم لِفارج ضيقها

For your sons and the sons of your brother - all of them -

The people seek refuge in them from distress.

فإذا الخطوبُ تراكمت فالمصطفى

يُرجى لدفعِ جَليلها ودقيقها

And when engagements abound, Al-Mustafa

Is hoped for to dispel major and minor [troubles].

وإذا لياليها دَجَت فمحمدُ ال

هادي بِطلعتهِ انجلاءُ غسوقها

And when her nights darken, Muhammad lights them up,

The guide, with his rising dispelling the darkness of her dawn.

ولدى أمينِ المجدِ حفظُ عهودِها

إن خانَها دهرٌ بحلّ وثيقها

And the trustworthy defender of glory preserves her covenants,

If time violates the tying of her knot.

أبني العُلى ارتشفوا سُلافةَ فرحةٍ

أحلى من الصهباءِ في راووقها

Sons of eminence, savor the intimacy of joy

Sweeter than sap in the drinking vessels of her clouds.

طاب السرور بها فقلت مؤرّخاً

وصل الأحبةَ عرسُكم برحِيقها

Joy prospered through it, so I said, recording it,

May your wedding join you with its spittle.