1. خُلِقنا لِنَلهو في الحَياةِ بِحُبِّنا

    وَنَسعَدَ في رَحبٍ مِنَ العَيشِ واسِعِ

    We were created to revel in life through our love,

    And to rejoice in a wide expanse of living.

  2. وَما كُنتَ إِلّا الحُسنُ في كُلِّ شائِعٍ

    وَما كُنتُ إِلّا الحُبَّ في كُلِّ ذائِعِ

    And you were nothing but beauty in all that spread abroad,

    And I was nothing but love in all that was widely known.

  3. مَلَأتَ اللَيالي مِن سَناكَ وُسامَةً

    وَأَترَعتَها مِن صَبوَتي بِمَدامِعي

    You filled the nights with loveliness from your radiance,

    And from my yearning you filled them to the brim with my tears.

  4. صَحيفَتُنا في الأَرضِ خالِدَةٌ

    بِنا وَمِن بَعدِنا تَبقى بِشَدوِ السَواجِعِ

    Our page on earth is immortal

    Through us, and after us it lives on through the song of cooing birds.

  5. فَكَم لَقَّنَت هذي الطُيورَ أَحِبَّةٌ

    فَرَجَّعَت الذِكرى بِأُفقِ المَسامِعِ

    For many a lover has taught these birds,

    So they echoed remembrance on the horizon of hearing.

  6. وَفي النَغمِ التَخليدِ مِن غَفوَةِ الرَدى

    وَفي سَرمَدٍ مِن عالَمِ الحُبِّ شاسِعِ

    And in melody lies immortality beyond death's slumber,

    And in a vast eternity within the world of love.

  7. وَيُحزِنُني أَن يَقصُرَ الخُلدُ دونَنا

    فَيا لَيتَ شِعري هَل سَتَبقى إِذَن مَعي

    And it saddens me that immortality should fall short of us;

    So, would that I knew: will you then remain with me?