فأوفقت دوني بغير المِراط

فأوفقت دوني بغير المِراط

ولا الفوق مما حشوت الجفيرا

ولا الفوق مما حشوت الجفيرا

So you nocked before me arrows that were not featherless,

I have attained my desire, though not by the commonly trod path,

Nor broken-nocked, from those you packed into the quiver,

Nor above, from what I heaped up in the pitcher.

مرفوعة مثل نوء السماك

مرفوعة مثل نوء السماك

وأفق غرة شهرلشهر نحيرا

وأفق غرة شهرلشهر نحيرا

Raised high, like the rain-bringing rise of al-Simāk,

Raised up like the Pleiades at nightfall

And coinciding with one month's beginning at another month's end.

And the horizon of the new moon rising at nightfall.

ولم يك نشؤك لي إذ نشأت

ولم يك نشؤك لي إذ نشأت

كنوء الزَّبَاني عجاجاً ومورا

كنوء الزَّبَاني عجاجاً ومورا

And your rising, when you rose, was not for me

Your origin was not for me when you came into being,

Like al-Zabānī's rise—dust and swirling tumult;

Like the Pleiades, confused and wavering.

ولكن نجمك سعد السعود

ولكن نجمك سعد السعود

طبقت أرضي غيثاً درورا

طبقت أرضي غيثاً درورا

But your star is Saʿd al-Suʿūd:

But your star, Fortunate One,

You covered my land with copious, pouring rain.

Rained down upon my land copious, gentle rain.