1. لَكِنَّهُ حَوضُ مَن أَودَى بِإِخوَتِهِ

    رَيبُ المَنُونِ فَأَضحَى بَيضَةَ البَلَدِ

    But it is the pool of one whose brothers were carried off

    by the ravages of death, leaving him the land’s lone egg.

  2. لَو كانَ يُشكى إلى الأَمواتِ ما لَقِيَ الـ

    ـأَحياءُ بَعدَهُمُ مِن شِدَّةِ الكَمَدِ

    If one could complain to the dead of what the

    living have suffered after them from bitter grief,

  3. ثُمَّ اِشتَكَيتُ لَأَشكاني وَساكِنُهُ

    قَبرٌ بِسِنجارَ أَو قَبرٌ عَلى قَهَدِ

    and I then complained, he would ease my grief, though his resting place

    is a grave in Sinjar, or a grave on Qahad.