أوَما انثنيتَ عن الوداعِ بلوعةٍ
ملأت حشَاك صبابةً وغليلا
And did you not turn away from farewell with anguish
that filled your heart with yearning and burning thirst,
ومدامعٍ تجري فيحسبُ أن في
آماقِهنَّ بَنَانَ إسماعيلا
and with streaming eyes, so one would think that in
their inner corners were Isma'il's fingertips?
يا أيها القرمُ الذي بعلوِّهِ
نال العَلاءُ من الزمانِ السُّولا
O noble chief, through whose eminence
glory won from Time what it wished for.
قَسَمت يداك على الوَرَى أرزاقها
فَكنوكَ قاسمَ رزقها المسئُولا
Your two hands apportioned among all people their sustenance,
so they dubbed you Qasim, the distributor of their sustenance whom they petition.
أهدت لمجدكَ حُلة موشيةً
تكسو الحسودَ كآبةً وذبولا
It offered your glory an embroidered robe
that clothes the envious in gloom and withering.
أحيَت حبيباً والوليدَ ففصَّلا
منها وشائعَ نسجها تفصيلا
It revived Habib and al-Walid, so the two fashioned
from it the skeins of its weave in fine detail.
فأفادها الطائيُّ دقةَ فكرهِ
والبُحتُري دماثةً وقَبُولا
Then al-Ta'i gave it the subtlety of his thought,
and al-Buhturi, smoothness and appeal.
Sol 6.1