1. Their necks have struck me fiercely, stringent;
Gently! I am the meekest to their plots.
١. قَد وَزوَزانِيَ مُشتَدّاً رِقابُهُما
رُوَيدَ إِنّي لَأَدنى ما تَكيدانِ
2. Fate and destiny hastened your misery;
So suffice with woe, for from you I am content.
٢. قَد عَجَّلَ الدَهرُ وَالأَقدارُ بُؤسُكُما
فَاِستَغنِيا بُؤسَ إِنّي عَنكُما غانِ
3. And they misguided me in a gloomy darkness,
As the misguided are misled between thorns.
٣. وَدَلِّيانِيَ في غَبراءَ مُظلِمَةٍ
كَما تُدَلّى دَلاةٌ بَينَ أَشطانِ