1. Time passes by controlling us in its course
And what era on the free has not gone by
١. جار الزمانُ علينا في تصرفِه
وأي دهرٍ على الأحرار لم يَجُرِ
2. For me, of time, what if its easiest part
Were cast upon the revolving cosmos, it would not revolve
٢. عندي من الدهر ما لو أنَّ أيسَرَهُ
يُلقى على الفلك الدَّوَار لم يَدُرِ