1. أراحَ الله مِن زَمانٍ

    محَتْ يدُه سُروري بالإساءَهْ

    May God deliver me from an age

    whose hand erased my joy through ill-treatment.

  2. فإن حَمِدَ الكَريمُ صباحَ يَومٍ

    وأنَّى ذاكَ لم يَحْمَدْ مساءَهْ

    For if a noble man praises a day's morning—

    and how could that be?—he will not praise its evening.