وَرَوضٍ جَلا صَدَأَ العَينِ بِه

وَرَوضٍ جَلا صَدَأَ العَينِ بِه

نَسيمٌ تَجارى عَلى مَشرَبِه

نَسيمٌ تَجارى عَلى مَشرَبِه

And a garden where the eye’s rust was polished away

In a meadow whose freshness delights the eye

by a breeze that coursed over its watering place.

A breeze passes gently over its drinking-place

صَنَوبَرَةٌ رُكِّبَت ساقُها

صَنَوبَرَةٌ رُكِّبَت ساقُها

عَلَيهِ فَخاضَت حَشا مِذنَبِه

عَلَيهِ فَخاضَت حَشا مِذنَبِه

A pine, its stem mounted

A pine-tree whose trunk is erected

upon it, plunged into the heart of its watercourse.

Bows over it and in the water dips its crown

فَشَبَّهتُها وَأَنابيبُها

فَشَبَّهتُها وَأَنابيبُها

بِها الماءُ قَد جَدَّ في مَسكَبِه

بِها الماءُ قَد جَدَّ في مَسكَبِه

So I likened it, together with its pipes—

I fancied it, with its boughs and its twigs

the water rushing through them as it poured out—

Was like a flask whose water flows from its neck

بِأَرقَمَ كَعَّكَ مِن شَخصِهِ

بِأَرقَمَ كَعَّكَ مِن شَخصِهِ

وَأَفرُخُهُ يَتَعَلَّقنَ بِه

وَأَفرُخُهُ يَتَعَلَّقنَ بِه

to a speckled snake that had made a coil of its body,

Like a mother-ostrich sheltering

with its young clinging to it.

Her fledglings clinging close to her