Sol 6.1

  1. رَأَى البَرقَ نَجدِيَّاً فَحَنَّ إِلى نَجدِ

    وَغادَرَهُ حِلفَ الصبَّابةِ والوَجدِ

    He saw lightning from Najd and yearned for Najd,

    And it left him a sworn companion of ardent love and longing.

  2. وَذَكَّرَهُ الحَيَّ الجَميعَ وَعهدهُم

    بِهِ وَزَماناً مَرَّ بالعَلَم الفَردِ

    And it reminded him of the gathered tribe and their days

    There, and a time that passed beside the solitary hill.

  3. فَباتَ يُسَلِّي النَّفسَ من لاعِجِ الأَسَى

    وَيشتاقُ جيراناً على البانِ والرَّندِ

    So he spent the night soothing his soul against searing sorrow,

    And longing for neighbors beside the moringa and laurel trees,

  4. ويَسأَلُ عن نارِ علَى أَبرقِ الحِمَى

    وإِن كانَ لا يُغني السُّؤالُ ولا يُجدي

    And asking about a fire on the stony rise of al-Hima,

    Though asking neither helps nor avails.

  5. فَمَا لفُؤادي إِ تَنَوَّرتُ نارَهُم

    غَدا آجمِاً قَد هالَهُ شِدَّةُ الوَقدِ

    What ails my heart, that when I spied their fire,

    It grew averse, appalled by the fierceness of the blaze?

  6. أُعَلِّلُ قَلبي بالنَّسيمِ إِذا سَرَى

    عَليلاً وأَهوى نَسمةً من صَبا نَجدِ

    I soothe my heart with the breeze as it wafts by night,

    Gently, and I love a breath of Najd's east wind.

  7. لِئَن أَشرَفَت بي في الشَّامِ قُنَيَّةٌ

    وَعاينَت أَطلالَ الدِّيارِ على بُعدِ

    If indeed Qunayya has borne me aloft in the Levant,

    And I have beheld the dwellings' ruins from afar,

  8. بَلَغتُ من الأَيام ما كُنتُ أمِلاً

    وأَصبَحتُ مِن بعدِ الشَّقاوِةِ في سِعدِ

    I have gained from life what I had hoped for,

    And after misery have come into good fortune.