1. خَفَقَتْ نسمَةُ الصَبا في الرِياضِ

    برداءٍ مِن الأريجِ مُفاضِ

    The east wind's breeze fluttered in the gardens,

    in a flowing robe of fragrance.

  2. وَسَرَتْ في حُمولة من سلامي

    ضَمَّختْ جَيْبَ خيسها الفَضْفاضِ

    And drifted with a cargo of my greetings,

    perfuming the bosom of their spacious thicket.

  3. ما روابٍ مَوْشيّة المنْدَل الرَّطْ

    ب بزهْر عن السحائبِ راضِ

    No hills, their moist aloeswood embroidered

    with blossoms content with the clouds,

  4. قدْ جرى في خلالها الماءُ ينسا

    بُ عليها بجدولٍ فيّاضِ

    through whose midst water had coursed, flowing

    over them in a brimming stream—

  5. صقَلتْهُ النسيمُ حتى بدتْ في

    هِ ازوِراراً أَسِرَّةُ الانقباضِ

    the breeze polished it until there appeared in

    it, aslant, the furrows of puckering;

  6. وَطَفتْ فوقَه بطونُ حَبابٍ

    أْطبَقَتْ حملها على الرضراض

    and the bellies of bubbles floated upon it,

    enclosing their burden above the pebbles;

  7. وغدت قضْبُها بمزْدَوِجِ الطّيْ

    رِ عُكوفاً على معينِ الحياضِ

    and their boughs, with birds in pairs, became

    bowed over the flowing water of the pools;

  8. ودنا النَّرْجِسُ الجَنِيُّ إِلى با

    كورة الوَرْدِ بالعيونِ المراضِ

    and the fresh narcissus drew near the first

    bloom of roses, with languid eyes—

  9. في اقتبال يوماً بأزهى رداء

    أو بأذكى من نشرها المستفاضِ

    were ever, in their prime, more splendidly robed,

    or more fragrant than its widely diffused scent.

  10. تتهادى إليك في ثوب عَرف

    من مشوق مشرد الاغتماص

    It glides toward you in a robe of fragrance,

    from one filled with longing, who banishes disdain.

  11. وابقَ واسلم ما إِن غدا ذو حفاظٍ

    ذاكراً مونِقَ العهودِ المواضي

    Live on and stay safe, as long as one possessed of loyalty

    recalls the charm of bygone times.