لا مجد لي بتقى أبي

لا مجد لي بتقى أبي

وسداده فيما سلكْ

وسداده فيما سلكْ

No glory comes to me from my father’s piety

No glory I gain from my father's piety,

and his rectitude in the path he followed,

or his uprightness in the path he took,

وندى لجدي أفعم ال

وندى لجدي أفعم ال

وادي به ودم سفكْ

وادي به ودم سفكْ

or my grandfather’s bounty, which filled the

or my grandfather's bounty, with which he filled the

valley, or blood he shed,

valley, or the blood he shed,

كشهادة الحسناء في

كشهادة الحسناء في

بيت أحلَّنِيَ الفلكْ

بيت أحلَّنِيَ الفلكْ

like the fair woman’s testimony in

equals the fair woman's testimony in

a verse: Fate has installed me as one who is

a verse that set me in the heavens:

ذا أغلب الشعراء شي

ذا أغلب الشعراء شي

طاناً وألطفهم ملكْ

طاناً وألطفهم ملكْ

the most overpowering among poets as a de-

“This is the mightiest of poets as a

mon, and the gentlest among them as an angel.

devil, and the gentlest of them as an angel.”

فبهذه تيهي إذا

فبهذه تيهي إذا

تاه الغنيُّ بما ملكْ

تاه الغنيُّ بما ملكْ

This, then, is my pride whenever

So in this lies my pride when

the rich man boasts of what he owns.

the rich man boasts of what he owns.