1. The burdens on Resurrection Day are like fire
Whose end is fire, though pleasant is its drinking.
١. هاتِ التي هيَ يومَ البَعثِ أوزارُ
كالنارِ في الحُسْنِ عُقبى شُربِها النارُ
2. Do you not see how the rose has bloomed with spring?
After a cycle it was concealed and folded.
٢. أما تَرى الوَردَ قد باح الرَّبيعُ به
من بعدِ ما مرَّ حَوْلٌ وهو إضمارُ
3. It was clothed in a green robe, but it has doffed
Them, till nothing remains on it but petals.
٣. وكانَ في خِلَعٍ خُضْرٍ فقد خُلِعَت
إلا عُرىً أُغْفِلَتْ منه وأزرارُ