كأنّي قُرْصُ الشّمْسِ عنْدَ طُلوعِها

وقدْ قدِمَتْ من قلْبِها نسْمَةُ الفَجْرِ

As if I were the sun's disk at sunrise,

And the breeze of dawn had come from its heart.

كأن نَسيمي والهَجيرُ مطَنِّبٌ

حديثُ وِصالٍ جاءَ في زمَنِ الهَجْرِ

As if my breeze and murmuring were the cooing

Of a conversation of reunion in the time of estrangement.

وإلا كَما هبّتْ بمُحْتَدِمِ الوَغى

صَبا النّصْرِ لكِنْ منْ بُنودِ بَني نصْرِ

Otherwise it is as the gale blew with raging tumult,

The morning of victory, but among the tents of the tribe of Nasr.