وشي حكى روضة الآداب مودعة
نور البديعين تتميم وتجنيس
Embroidery mimicked a garden of letters, harboring
A brocade mirroring the garden of literature, filled with
the blossoms of twin embellishments: completion and wordplay.
The blossoms of the two rhetorical arts: completion and wordplay.
ترى به حيوان البرّ مصطلحاً
ظبي الكناس يوازي ضيغم الخيس
Within it you see the beasts of the wild reconciled:
In it you see the creatures of the land at peace:
the gazelle of the covert alongside the lion of the thicket.
The gazelle of the covert stands alongside the lion of the thicket.
كأنه وضياء الشمس تنشره
والكفُّ تطويه أذناب الطواويس
As the sunlight spreads it out, it seems—
It is as though, as sunlight spreads it out
and the hand folds it—the tails of peacocks.
And the hand folds it, it were peacocks' tails.
كأن لابسه والتيه يعطفه
نشوان يختال بين الكأس والكيس
Its wearer, with pride making him sway, seems
As though its wearer, swayed by pride,
drunk, strutting between the cup and the purse.
Were a tipsy man strutting between the cup and the purse.
Sol 6.1