1. O child of the compassionate mother, my Lord
Has ordained as He willed, a detestable matter

2. I speak after your death with remorse
Since the detestable news took you away

3. I gave up my immediate desires for my eventual ones
Thus did I live, and how I was weaned and given to drink

4. I grew month after month
If only I had not grown in those months

5. When the pigeons cooed at me and my weaning approached
I was not protected from them

6. I left the house empty for others
And had I stayed long in it, I would have suffered

7. I was purified so I did not become impure
And had I lived long, I would not have stayed pure

8. Who knows, perhaps my crying is so I
Can attain success in the hereafter if I am chosen

9. Those who weaned me were gentle, and on the day I left
It was as if I had never been weaned

10. Alas! I lived the life of an eagle in it
And death was the last I met

11. Poor - so I clung without caution
To my Lord or as a prince so I was cautious

12. By the king's making, I
Hastened my departure so did not last

13. If only I were a young mountain gazelle, I would have climbed
And water in a jug, I would have been scooped up