Sol 6.1

  1. أَنِفَ الخِمارُ مِن فَرطِ خِباها

    وَرَأى الصَونَ اِحتِكاراً فَسَباها

    The veil resented her excessive concealment,

    And deemed her safekeeping hoarding, so took her captive.

  2. قَهوَةٌ لَو قيلَ لِلشَمسِ اِسجُدوا

    وَبَدَت حُقَّت عَلى الناسِ اِشتِباها

    A wine—if men were told, 'Bow down to the sun,'

    And she appeared, they would owe her homage, mistaking her for it.

  3. جَرَّدَ المَزجُ عَلَيها سَيفَهُ

    عِندَما سَلَّت عَلى اللَيلِ ظُباها

    The mixing water drew its sword against her

    When she unsheathed her blades against the night.

  4. وَأَباها المَزجُ لَمّا مُزِجَت

    وَإِذا ما اِنتَسَبَت كانَ أَباها

    The mixing water rejected her when she was mixed,

    Yet when she traced her lineage, it was her father.

  5. فَرَأَينا اللَيلَ صُبحاً عِندَما

    بَرَزَت تُجلى عَلينا مِن خِباها

    So we saw the night as morning when

    She emerged, unveiled before us, from her tent.

  6. هَتَكَت أَنوارُها سِترَ الدُجى

    بِصِفاحٍ خَرَّقَ اللَيلَ سَناها

    Her lights rent the veil of darkness

    With broad blades whose radiance tore through the night.

  7. قابَلَتنا فَسَجَدنا هَيبَةً

    لِمُحَيّاها وَعَفَّرنا الجِباها

    She faced us, and we prostrated ourselves in awe

    Before her countenance, and pressed our foreheads into the dust,

  8. في رِياضٍ عَطَّرَت أَنفاسُها

    سائِرَ الآفاقِ إِذ هَبَّت صَباها

    In gardens whose breaths perfumed

    Every horizon when their east wind blew.

  9. أَلبَسَتها الصُحُبُ مِن وَشيِ الكَلا

    حُلَلاً مُذ بَلَغَ السَيلُ رُباها

    The companions clothed them in the brocade of herbage—

    Robes, ever since the torrent reached their hills.

  10. فَقَضَينا لَذَّةَ النَفسِ بِها

    في صَفا عَيشٍ بِهِ الدَهرُ حَباها

    So we fulfilled the soul's desire with her,

    In the serenity of a life with which Time had favored it.