1. إِذا عُدَّتِ الأَوطانُ في كُلِّ بَلدَةٍ

    لِقَومٍ سُجوناً فَالقُبورُ حُصونُ

    If homelands in every town are reckoned

    prisons for a people, then graves are fortresses.

  2. وَما كانَ هَذا العَيشُ إِلّا إِذالَةً

    فَعَلَّ تُراباً بِالحِمامِ يَصونُ

    And this life has been nothing but abasement;

    so perhaps the dust will shelter us through death.

  3. فَكُن بَعضَ أَشجارٍ تَقَضَّت أُصولُها

    وَلَم يَبقَ في الدُنيا لَهُنَّ غُصونُ

    So be one of the trees whose roots have perished,

    and no branches of theirs remain in the world.