1. لَو كانَ جِسمُكَ مَتروكاً بِهَيأَتِهِ

    بَعدَ التَلافِ طَمِعنا في تَلافيهِ

    If your body had been left in its form,

    after destruction, we would have hoped to restore it—

  2. كاّلدَنِّ عُطَّلَ مِن راحٍ تَكونُ بِهِ

    وَلَم يُحَطَّم فَعادَت مَرَّةً فيهِ

    like a wine jar emptied of the wine it held,

    yet not shattered, so the wine returned to it once more.

  3. لَكِنَّهُ صارَ أَجزاءً مُقَسَّمَةً

    ثُمَّ اِستَمَرَّ هَباءً في سَوافيهِ

    But it became separate fragments,

    then drifted on as dust in the winds that scattered it.