ومرهفة أرق شباً وأمضى
وأقطع من شبا السيف الحسام
And a honed blade, finer-edged and keener,
And a finely honed blade, thinner-edged and keener,
more cutting than the edge of the sharp sword.
And sharper-cutting than the edge of a keen sword.
تعانق في الدوي قنا يراع
ويبقى ما استكن من السقام
In the inkwells it embraces reed-spears,
It embraces the spears of reed pens in the inkwells,
yet what lies hidden of the malady remains.
And whatever sickness lay hidden remains.
لها ذنب كصيصية أتمت
وصدر مثل خافية الحمام
It has a tail like a fully grown spur,
It has a tail like a fully formed spur,
and a breast like a pigeon’s covert feather.
And a breast like a dove's secondary wing-feather.
Sol 6.1