1. Alas! The winds of time and its vicissitudes
Have cast their unhappy fortunes towards Yemen

2. My most sublime wishes, your affection, I am
Lonely and deprived of all hopes

3. Fate has armed my enemies against me
The fangs of slander in an age of safety

4. The fangs of a tongue tracking its prey
And another sharpening naked slander

5. Two arrows in my heart though it is but one
If one arrow pierced it, it would suffice

6. So remove my shackles with some relief
By God of Bounty, I am wretched