نزحوا ففاضت بعدهم أجفاني — محمد الغلامي 29 قصيدة

نزحوا فَفاضَت بعدهم أَجفاني

وَالدهر من قبل الفِراق جفاني

They departed; after them my eyelids overflowed,

And time had shunned me even before the parting.

نعم الحسان الغيد لَولا أَنهم

لا يحسنون الى كَئيب عان

How fine the graceful beauties, were it not that they

Show no kindness to a sorrowful captive.

نفروا عَن الصب الحَزين تدللا

وَكَذا النفار خَلائق الغزلان

They shied from the grieving lover out of coyness,

And such skittishness is the nature of gazelles.

نهبوا لجيش الصبر بعد بعادهم

وَهمو قَديماً غاضبون جناني

They plundered patience's army after their departure,

And long ago they were angry with my heart.

نزلوا بِقَلبي فاِكتَسى شرفا بهم

دون الملا وَالدار بالسكان

They settled in my heart, and it was clothed in honor through them,

Apart from all others; a home is honored by its inhabitants.

نعشوا نواحي أَضلعي بنزولهم

فهمو لها كالروح للأَبدانِ

They revived the reaches of my ribs by settling there,

For they are to them as the soul is to bodies.

نهجوا وَمالوا عَن معاهد صبهم

وَالميل معهود من الأَغصانِ

They went their way and turned from their lover's familiar haunts,

And swaying is the customary way of branches.

نضحوا بمآء الريق تربة بالي

فَغَدا القَتيل يسير بالأَكفانِ

They sprinkled my mind's soil with the water of their saliva,

So the slain man began to walk in shrouds.

نسبوا إِلى قَلبي السلوّ وأَنى لي

هَذا وَحاشاه من السلوان

They ascribed forgetfulness to my heart—but how could I have

That? Far be it from forgetting love!

نشروا الشعور عَلى قَضيب قوامهم

فحكوا بذاكَ السنحق السلطاني

They spread their hair over the branch of their stature,

Thus resembling the sultan's standard.

نظروا الكَئيب وَقَد قضى في جبهم

فَقَضوا له بالصدّ وَالحُرمانِ

They saw the sorrowful man, who had perished in their pit,

So they decreed for him rejection and deprivation.

بحروا بسيف سهادهم طفل الكَرى

فجَرى دَم الأَجفان أَحمر قان

They slashed sleep's infant with the sword of their sleeplessness,

So the blood of the eyelids flowed red, deep crimson.

نصروا السقام عَلى القوى بصدودهم

فهمو لسقم الجسم كالأَعوانِ

They aided sickness against strength by their rejection,

So they are like helpers to the body's illness.

نقضوا العهود غداة جدوا في السرى

وَالغَدر شر خَلائق الانسان

They broke their pledges when they hastened on their night journey,

And treachery is the worst of human traits.

نثروا لآلى اللفظ عند غابهم

فكأَنَّها مدح العَظيم الشانِ

They scattered pearls of speech beside their thicket,

As though they were praise of the man of lofty standing:

نجم المُلوك وَشمسها وَهِلالها

بدر الأَكارِم احمد الاقران

The star of kings, their sun and their crescent,

The full moon of the nobles—Ahmad among his peers.

نال الفخار بجده وَبجده

وَحوى السباق بحلبة الميدان

He attained glory through his good fortune and his diligence,

And won the race on the arena's track.

نارَت بطلعته البلاد فاصبحت

تثنى عَلى اشراقها القمران

The lands shone with his countenance, so that

The sun and moon came to praise their radiance.

نعم له كالطوق في أَجيادنا

فَلِذاكَ عاقتنا عَن الطَيران

His favors are like a collar around our necks,

Thus they have kept us from flying.

نمت عَلى شرف حوته خلاله

وَنَمَت اياديه بكل مَكان

They bespoke a nobility embodied in his virtues,

And his benefactions grew in every place.

نجمت نجوم العدل في أعصاره

فَغَدا يُفاخِر صاحب الايوان

The stars of justice rose in his times,

So he came to vie in glory with the lord of the iwan.

تجح الأُمور بهمة منه حكت

ساعير جرماً بل ذرا لبنان

He made affairs succeed through a resolve of his that matched

Sa'ir in magnitude—nay, the peaks of Lebanon.

نقما أَعد لكل باغ فاجِر

نعما أَعد لِباغي الاحسان

He prepared punishments for every wicked aggressor,

He prepared blessings for the seeker of kindness.

نَهَر جَرى من كفه منا لم

نهلا يَروم وَلَيسَ بالمنان

A river flowed from his palm as bounty; he did not

Seek a draught, nor is he one to vaunt his favors.

نفشت بحرث نواله غنم الوَرى

فَعَفا وَلكن ما عفا عَن جان

Mankind's sheep grazed by night in the field of his bounty,

So it flourished; yet he pardoned no offender.

نادى نداه فانّ ذَلِكَ لَم يَزَل

غوث العَديم وَملجأ الولهان

His bounty called out, for it has always been

Succor to the destitute and a refuge for the distraught.

نمق طروس النظم في أَمداحه

ومن النَشيد قَلائد العقيان

Adorn the pages of verse in praise of him,

And fashion from song necklaces of pure gold.

نزَّه لحاظك في رياض صفاته

بين الأقاح وَيانع الريحان

Let your gaze roam through the gardens of his qualities,

Among daisies and flourishing basil.

نوب الزَمان عدته دَوماً ما شدا

شاد من الأَطيار في أَفنان

May time's calamities always pass him by, so long as there sings

A songster among the birds amid the boughs.