Sol 6.1

  1. أأنت مجيبي إن دعوتك باكيا

    وهل لدموعي أن ترد العواديا

    Will you answer me if I call to you weeping?

    And can my tears drive calamities back?

  2. مرضت ولم تشغل طبيباً وعُوَّداً

    ولم يركَ السُّمّارُ والأهل شاكيا

    You fell ill, yet troubled neither physician nor sickbed visitors,

    and neither night companions nor family saw you complaining.

  3. وشئت بجهد الشيخ مقدرة الفتى

    تعجِّل موعوداً وترجع ماضيا

    With an old man's effort you sought a young man's strength,

    hastening what was promised and bringing back the past,

  4. وتجمع في ساعاتك العمر كله

    لتختم تاريخاً من المجد عاليا

    gathering a whole lifetime into your hours,

    to complete a lofty history of glory.

  5. وقد نازعتك العلة اليد والخطى

    ولو عشت عاماً نازعتك القوافيا

    Though illness fought you for your hand and stride,

    had you lived another year, it would have fought you for your rhymes.

  6. مضى زمن لم أنتقل فيه مرة

    إليك وبي من لاعج الشوق ما بيا

    A time passed in which I never once made my way

    to you, though such searing longing filled me.

  7. وكم جاءك العذّال يتهمونني

    وعندك أني لا عليَّ ولا ليا

    How often the reproachers came to you accusing me,

    while, in your eyes, nothing counted against me or for me.

  8. فلما انطوى ما كان دونك حائلاً

    وقرَّبت الأقدار تلك المراميا

    When what had stood between us as a barrier vanished,

    and fate brought those goals within reach,

  9. مضيت فلم آنس بعتبك ساعة

    ولم أتزود من رضاك ثوانيا

    you departed before I could enjoy an hour of your reproach,

    or provision myself with even seconds of your favor.

  10. ولم ينأ عني الركب بالراحل الذي

    تقدم حتى كان ركبك تاليا

    The caravan had not yet borne far from me the departed one who

    went ahead, when your caravan followed in its wake.

  11. فلا أنت فيه سامع ما أقوله

    ولا أنت دار بالذي في فؤاديا

    There you do not hear what I say,

    nor do you know what is in my heart.

  12. أفي كل يوم يأخذ البين من يدي

    عزيزاً ويطوي من رفاقيَ غاليا

    Must separation every day take from my hand

    someone dear, and fold away a cherished companion?

  13. وكيف التأسي الآن عمن فقدته

    وقد نال مني الموت ما كان باقيا

    How can I now find consolation for the one I have lost,

    when death has taken what remained of me?

  14. وقد يجد الأحياء عندي مكانهم

    ولست عن الموتى بمن عاش ساليا

    The living may still find their place with me,

    but I am not one who lives forgetful of the dead.

  15. فيا طائر الوادي ويا شاعر الحمى

    ذهبت فأوحشت الربى والمغانيا

    O bird of the valley, O poet of the homeland,

    you have gone, leaving hills and dwellings desolate.

  16. وولت لياليك الحسان ومن لنا

    ومن لسوانا بالمعيد اللياليا

    Your lovely nights have passed; who is there for us,

    and who for others, to bring those nights back?

  17. وجزت المدى المأمول من كل طيِّبٍ

    من العيش واستقبلت عقباك راضيا

    You traversed the hoped-for span of every delight

    of life, and faced your final destiny content.

  18. وقد زهدت في الملك نفسك واكتفت

    بما كنت من أوطارها أمس قاضيا

    Your soul had grown indifferent to dominion, content

    with the wishes you had fulfilled for it yesterday.

  19. أتمتلئ الدنيا بما أنت قائل

    ويصبح في الدنيا مكانك خاليا

    Can the world be filled with what you say,

    yet your place in the world become empty?

  20. وخلفك من مجد التراث قصائد

    يزول تراث الناس وهي كما هيا

    Behind you remain poems, a glorious legacy;

    others' legacies vanish, while they remain as they are.

  21. بعثت بها في العالمين مدائناً

    روائح في حسن النجوم غواديا

    You sent them among the world's peoples as cities,

    traveling at dusk and dawn, as lovely as the stars.

  22. وما كان هذا الشعر توحيه صادقاً

    إلى الخلق إلا الروح تجريه صافيا

    This poetry that you imparted in truth

    to humankind was nothing but the spirit pouring it forth pure.

  23. وقد جئت بالآيات فيها حدائقاً

    كما جئت بالأمثال فيها أغانيا

    You brought forth wonders in them as gardens,

    just as you brought forth proverbs in them as songs.

  24. رعى الملك المحبوب قدرك عنده

    وعزّى رجال الشعر فيك مواسيا

    The beloved king honored your standing with him,

    and consoled the men of poetry in their loss of you.

  25. وصانت لك العهد الحكومة كابراً

    وأدى إليك الشعب أجرك وافيا

    The government kept faith with you as a man of eminence,

    and the people paid you your due in full.

  26. وهل كرمت تكريمك الفخم فاتحاً

    بلادُك أو أعطت مقامك غازيا

    Has a conqueror ever been honored as magnificently as you

    by your country, or a warrior been granted your rank?

  27. توالت عليها الرسل من كل أمة

    وقد حملوا فيها الأسى والتعازيا

    Envoys came to it in succession from every nation,

    bringing into it grief and condolences:

  28. وفوداً من الشرق الممثل فيهم

    حواضرَه في حزنها والبواديا

    delegations from the East, through whom it represented

    its cities in their sorrow, and its desert lands.

  29. يطوفون أفواجاً بقبرك خُشَّعاً

    وكم دخلوا قصراً عليك وناديا

    They circle your grave in reverent throngs,

    having so often entered a palace and a gathering to see you,

  30. مطيلين من ذكراك حتى تكاد من

    وفائهمُ ذكراك تحييك ثانيا

    dwelling long on your memory, until, through

    their loyalty, your memory almost brings you to life again.

  31. وكادوا بنجواهم يرونك بينهم

    وإن كنت عنهم غائباً متواريا

    In their whispered talk they almost saw you among them,

    though you were absent from them, hidden away.

  32. ويرتد هذا المأتم اليوم موسماً

    لمصر وترتد المراثي تهانيا

    Today this mourning turns into a festival

    for Egypt, and elegies turn into congratulations.

  33. ومن كان يرجو أن يرى بعد موته

    حياة فهذا فوق ما كنت راجيا

    Whoever hoped to see, after his death,

    life—this is beyond what you had hoped for.

  34. تعال صف الدار التي أنت صائر

    إليها وما أصبحت فيها ملاقيا

    Come, describe the abode you are bound

    for, and what you have now encountered there.

  35. وهب كل سمح من صحابك بعض ما

    تناولته حياً وأدركت ثاويا

    Grant each generous friend of yours a little of what

    you gained while alive and attained while lying at rest.

  36. أرى شعراء العصر بعدك كلهم

    سواء ولست المستخار المحابيا

    I see the poets of this age after you, all of them,

    as equals; I am no arbiter who plays favorites.

  37. لكل فتى وجدانه غير حاسب

    على قلبه يوماً أميراً وواليا

    Each young man has his own feelings, never acknowledging

    a prince or governor over his heart.

  38. فلا يرسل الأشعار يطلب خلفها

    جزاء ولا فيها يساوم شاريا

    So he sends no poems forth seeking in their wake

    reward, nor haggles over them with a buyer.

  39. وقد عاد في الشرق الشقي بشعره

    سعيداً به في العالمين مباهيا

    And in the East, one wretched through his poetry has become

    happy through it, boasting of it before the world.

  40. أريتنيَ الأجيال في الأرض كلها

    ضروباً وما فارقت في الريف داريا

    You showed me the generations throughout the earth,

    in their many kinds, though I never left my home in the countryside.

  41. وأشهدتني مجرى الحياة ولم تزل

    تريني وإن مت المدى والنواحيا

    You let me witness life's course, and still

    you show me, though you have died, the horizons and the regions.

  42. وأي معيد لم يكن منك آخذاً

    وأي مجيد لم يكن لك حاكيا

    What imitator has not borrowed from you,

    and what master has not imitated you?

  43. وفنُّكَ فنِّي واسمك اسمي ومن أتى

    بآلك مصراً أمس جاء بآليا

    Your art is my art, your name my name; and he who brought

    your family to Egypt in days past brought my family too.

  44. أعزَّتنيَ القربى إليك وضاعفت

    إمارتك الكبرى عليّ اعتزازيا

    Kinship with you ennobled me, and

    your great princely authority over me redoubled my pride.

  45. وأني وإن أدركت للشعر دولة

    لغير ملاق مغنياً عنك كافيا

    And I, though I attain sovereignty in poetry,

    shall never find anyone who can adequately take your place.