நீரென்னி லும்அழுங் கண்முகில் காள்நெஞ்சம் அஞ்சலையென்றாரென்னி லுந்தம ராயுரைப் பார்அம ராவதிக்குநேரென்னி லுந்தகும் கச்சியுள் ஏகம்பர் நீள்மதில்வாய்ச்சேரென்னி லுந்தங்கும் வாட்கண்ணி தானன்பர் தேர்வரவே.
In plain words
O clouds, though you are but water, you are like weeping eyes. Whoever it may be who says, “Heart, do not fear,” and tells of her lover's chariot coming, she will speak of them as kin: she of the sword eyes, who stays, as one may well say, by the long walls of Ēkampar in Kanchi, a city fit to be called the equal of Amarāvatī.
Line by line
O clouds, though you are water, like weeping eyes; heart, do not fear, so whoever it may be, as kin she speaks of those who tell; to Amarāvatī even if called equal, it is fitting, Kanchi; at Ēkampar's long walls dwelling there, as one may say, she stays, she of the sword eyes, of her lover's chariot coming.