كم دون أرضك من وادٍ ومن علمٍ

كأن أعلاه بالأفلاك منتسج

How many a valley and standard there is below your land,

As though its heights were woven with the stars!

ومن مروجٍ كظهر الترس مظلمةٍ

كأن حصباءها تحت الدجى سبج

And meadows like the surface of a round shield darkened,

As though its pebbles beneath the dew were crisped.

حتى إذا الشمس لاحت في سباسبها

حسبت أعلامها في الآل تختلج

Until when the sun shines on its morning shadows,

I deemed its standards amid the family were astir.

وكم فلاةٍ يفوت الطرف آخرها

للجن بالليل في أقطارها وهج

And many a barren plain whose farther end

For the Jinn at night within its regions there is ample space.

يهماء غبراء لا يدري الدليل بها

في أي أرجائها له الفرج

A dusty brown plain nor knows the guide about it -

In which of its slopes for him is the release.

قطعتها بابن حرفٍ ضامر قطمٍ

صلب المناسم في أرقاله هوج

I crossed it for a son of noble lineage compressed of bounty,

Firm of characteristics in his self-possession bowed.

شوقاً إليك ولولا ما أكابده

لكن لي في بلاد اللَه منفرج

Yearning for you, and were it not for what I endure

For me in God's land there would have been a relief.

فإن تجد لي فمحقوق بذاك وإن

تبخل علي فلا لوم ولا حرج

If you find me worthy of that, while if

You refuse me, no blame and no disgrace.