حمَّلتكَ الديارُ مالا تُطيقُ

مذ عرى شملَ أهلِها التفريقُ

The homelands have burdened you with more than you can bear

Since the unity of its people was torn apart

عَرصاتٍ حَبستَ أيدي المراسي

لِ عليها والدمعُ ملك طَليقُ

Lands whose rivers you dammed with dams

Yet tears flow freely

كنتَ ترتادُها وريقةَ روضٍ

وهي اليومَ دمنةٌ لا تروق

You used to frequent it when it was a meadow

Today it is a refuse heap that does not please

سَحَقتها اليوم المطايا كأَن لم

تكُ بالأمسِ وهي مِسكٌ سحيق

Today, the horses have crushed it

As if yesterday it was not musk, sublime

صاحِ ماذا عليك من رسمِ دارٍ

قد تعفَّت وزالَ عنها الفريقُ

Cry out, what is required of you from the image of a house

That is now in ruins and its company has gone

أوحَشَت غير أن يئنَّ ابنُ ورقا

ءَ بها أو يحنَّ صبٌّ مشوق

It frightened away all except the moaning of the son of Wárqa

Or the longing of an enamored youth

فاطّرح ذكرَها لمدحِ عظيمٍ

هيبةً باسمهِ تضيق الحُلوق

So discard any mention of it for the praise of the Great One

Whose awe fills throats

حسنُ الفعل ماجد الفرع والأص

ل جديرٌ بالمكرماتِ حقيق

Good action glorifies lineage and origin

And is worthy of bounties in truth

لحِقَته أماجدُ العصرِ لكن

عزَّ في شأوِه عليها اللُحوق

It attained the glories of the age but

Its grandeur made it hard for them to catch up

ذو لسانٍ كما ينضنض صلٌّ

وفمٍ فيه ريقةُ الصلِّ ريق

One whose tongue articulates gentle sounds

And whose mouth holds the saliva of slick tongues

هو في أعينِ الخصومِ لسانٌ

وبأحشائهم سِنانٌ ذليق

To his enemies he is a tongue

And in their guts, a smooth fang

وإذا غايةٌ من المجدِ عنَّت

لم يعقهُ عن نيلها العيُّوق

And if the goal of glory seemed too far

Hurdles did not stop him from reaching it