يَارَوْضَةً لِلأَدَبِ الْمُجْتَنَى

أَغْرَقَهَا الشَّامِتُ فِي حَوْضِ

O garden of refined literature

The critic has flooded it with his pool

قُلْنَا وَقَدْ بَلَّلَهَا مَاؤُهُ

لاَ يُنكَرُ الْمَاءُ عَلَى الرَّوْضِ

We said, as its water soaked it:

Water should not be denied to the garden