Sol 6.1

  1. أرَدَّ الدموعَ بأردانهِ

    وكَفْكَفَ عَبْرَة أجفانِه

    He held back the tears with his sleeves,

    And wiped away the tear from his eyelids,

  2. صيانة سرّ الهوى يا هذيم

    فباح البكاءُ بكتمانه

    To guard love’s secret, O Hudhaym;

    Yet weeping revealed what he concealed.

  3. ولو أنكرَ الصبُّ أمر الغرام

    لجاءَ الغرام ببرهانه

    And even if the lovesick lover denied his passion,

    Passion would surely come with its proof.

  4. وإرسالُ عبرتِه في الديار

    تُعبِّرُ عن فرطِ أشجانه

    And his shedding of tears among the dwellings

    Expresses the intensity of his sorrows.

  5. يحنُّ إلى أثلاثِ الغُوَير

    حنينَ الغريب لأوطانه

    He yearns for the thirds of al-Ghuwayr,

    With a stranger’s yearning for his homelands.

  6. وهامَ بسلعٍ هيام المشوق

    وما هام إلاَّ لسكّانه

    And he adored Salʿ with a longing lover’s ardor,

    And loved it only for its inhabitants.

  7. وقد قال سعد بذاك الحمى

    شَجَتْهُ ملاعبُ غِزلانه

    And Saʿd spoke at that sanctuary;

    Its gazelles’ playing grounds grieved him.

  8. وذَلَّ لسلطان حكم الهوى

    وما ذلَّ إلاَّ لسلطانه

    And he bowed to the authority of love’s rule,

    And bowed to none but his sovereign.

  9. وعَرَّفني البرقُ شأنَ الغرام

    وما أعْرَفَ المرءَ في شانه

    And lightning taught me the nature of passion;

    And how well a man knows his own affairs!

  10. وأوْقَدَ في القلب نيرانَهُ

    فماذا تقول بنيرانه

    And it kindled its fires in the heart;

    So what do you say of its fires?

  11. رأى صاحبي آيةً للفؤاد

    تدلُّ على ضد سُلْوانه

    My companion saw a sign for the heart

    That showed it had not forgotten love.

  12. وكاد يصدقُ لولا الضّنى

    بِزورِ السُّلُوِّ وبهتانِه

    And, but for wasting sickness, he would almost have believed

    In the false pretense of forgetting love and its fabrication.

  13. فآمَنَ في مرسلاتِ الدّموع

    ولستُ أشكّ بإيمانه

    So he believed in the messengers of tears,

    And I do not doubt his faith.