1. Ask the garden of poetry how it was devastated by its beauty
Until it was devoid of the shadows of beauty and fragrance

2. Whoever tries to dam the flood comes back pushed by the current
When it descends from the summits of the hills

3. Whoever attacks these tents in the morning
Makes it lawful to destroy them after beautifying them

4. It is death that does not cease to take away
It does not spare anyone alive without stripping them

5. It is the right of the Arabs to grieve for their poet
And shed tears copiously like pouring rain

6. And send a burning sigh that shatters
The ribs of every tender-hearted chief

7. Who has ancient roots in his Arabness
Comes up with two kinds of magic of meaning and composition

8. And the coquetry of rhymes which shine
Like the faces of young Bedouin girls

9. O father of nobility, rise and improvise in this gathering
Your refined verses were not polished by refinement

10. And ignite the fire for the people have become apathetic
Their hearts subdued, no heart aroused

11. And blow your indignation in their noses out of anger
For it may stir the idols of the shrines

12. Humiliation has taken hold of my people, no wonder
They do not care about rebuke and admonishment

13. How honorable the excuse would have been, had the calamity scattered
Their body parts among the stabbed and beaten

14. But the methods of the enemies overwhelmed them while they
Slept unaware, oblivious of those methods

15. And they are content with the little dangled
By their colonizers with intimidation and appeasement

16. As if they did not establish the glory of their ancestors
On swords and spearheads

17. O guide of every land whose inhabitants are Arabs
Whom you traverse with ascents and descents

18. And you who have knowledge and understanding of their condition
Between prosperity and hardship

19. Have you come across people living in comfort
Or has any country been spared devastation?

20. Or which shepherd without a wolf alongside
If you do not find the shepherd worse than the wolf

21. Al-Kazimi has attained immortality
Where he meets the best reception from God

22. O father of nobility, rise above your elevation and say
I see Palestine or the wonders of the world

23. And look at us and survey attentively in the protected land
Guidance has never been veiled

24. You will find a strong, faithful promise to the foreigner but
We got from him nothing but a fleeting mirage

25. Seventeen years have passed in the country ruled by him
His rule a mix of intimidation and enticement

26. This world may end while in his hands
Our fate is hostage to training and testing

27. I see its evil spread among the people
And its good for the saddled horses and accountants

28. Is there any comfort left in Palestine after the misery
Or does time smile again after frowning?

29. How many resolves and haste led to disappointment
And intentions failed by procrastination and evasion