كمhow many منof كريمa noble man قدhas (marks completion) بابunclear; likely بات: spent the night فيin دعةease
كم من كريم قد باب في دعة
أتاهcame to him سيلa torrent الصباحthe morning بالنكدwith misery
أتاه سيل الصباح بالنكد
How many a noble man has [spent the night] at ease,
How many a generous man has fallen into misery
Only for morning’s torrent to bring him misery!
Whom the torrent of fate with distress has overwhelmed
وربand many a فرخfledgling أراشهgave it feathers زمنtime
ورب فرخ أراشه زمن
فصارand so it became بالعزthrough glory بيضةegg; figuratively, a peerless chief البلدthe town
فصار بالعز بيضة البلد
And many a fledgling has been feathered by time,
And many a chick has the world under its wing fostered
And so become, through glory, the town’s “egg”—its peerless chief.
Who later a useful member of state became
Sol 6.1