1. How could the sea now disappear in the depths of a graveyard
When once no bottom could be found however far one plunged?
١. وَكَيفَ تَوارى البَحرُ في قعرِ مَلحدٍ
وَقَد كانَ لا يُلفى لِلجَّتِهِ قعرُ
2. With him has vanished all splendour into the dust.
Just as ambergris lies buried in the clay of oceans.
٢. تَوارَت به تلك الجَلالةُ في الثَرى
كَما يَتوارى في ثَرى المعدن التبرُ