حال دائي بين القوافي وبيني
فبكت عينها اشتياقاً وعيني
My illness has come between the rhymes and me;
My illness came between the rhymes and me;
the rhymes’ eye wept with longing—and mine did too.
so their eye wept with longing, and mine too.
لبلادي عليَّ دَينٌ وما في
قدرتي أن أفي بهذا الدين
To my homeland I owe a debt, yet it is not
I owe my country a debt, and it is not within
within my power to discharge this debt.
my power to repay this debt.
وبها من حوادث الدهر رزءٌ
بات عجزي عن رده رزئين
In it, among time’s vicissitudes, is a calamity;
And it bears a calamity from the misfortunes of time;
my inability to ward it off has become a second calamity.
my inability to avert it has made it a double calamity.
إن يوماً لا أنظم الشعر فيه
لبغيضٌ إلى بني القطرين
Indeed, a day on which I compose no poetry
Indeed, a day on which I compose no poetry
is surely hateful to the sons of the two lands.
is surely hateful to the sons of the two lands.
Sol 6.1