1. هذه الريح وهذا الجبل

    وأنا والمنتهى والأجل

    This wind, and this mountain,

    And I, and the end, and the appointed hour.

  2. والجناحان وليلي قفص

    والسياج الأبيض المكتحل

    And the two wings, and my night is a cage,

    And the white fence lined with kohl.

  3. أيّ أنغامي الذي يسمعني

    قمم تعزف فيها السّبل

    Which of my melodies hears me?

    Peaks where the paths play music.

  4. والذي تبصر عيني غصنا

    والذي يبصر عيني طلل

    And what my eye sees as a branch,

    And what sees my eye is a ruin.

  5. هذه الريح وهذا الجبل

    وأنا والمنتهى والأجل

    This wind, and this mountain,

    And I, and the end, and the appointed hour.

  6. حطب يبحر في النهّر وفي

    صدره النّار التي تشتعل

    Firewood sails on the river, and in

    its breast is the fire that blazes.

  7. نسي الرفش عليه أثرا

    ذكر الحطّاب فيه البلل

    The spade forgot a trace upon it;

    The woodcutter remembered the wetness within it.

  8. فعلى أيّ تراب تنحني

    هذه الشمس التي تبتهل

    So over what earth does it bow,

    this sun that prays?

  9. وعلى كلّ تراب صنم

    وعلى كلّ سماء بطل

    And on every patch of earth, an idol,

    And upon every sky, a hero.

  10. هذه الريح وهذا الجبل

    وأنا والمنتهى والأجل

    This wind, and this mountain,

    And I, and the end, and the appointed hour.

  11. والطريقان وحبّي أثر

    أتخطّاه وسيري ملل

    And the two roads, and my love is a trace,

    I step over it, and my journey is tedium.

  12. والتي قد رحلت في أثري

    لم تعد منه وعاد الأمل

    And she who had departed in my wake

    did not return from it, and hope returned.

  13. أشموعي والجى يذرفها

    فصباحي أنجم تنهمل

    Are these my candles, as [darkness?] sheds them?

    For my morning is stars pouring down.

  14. والنّدى الإنسان في سنبلة

    حلمه في ساقها يقتتل

    And dew—the human being in an ear of grain—

    his dream does battle within its stalk.

  15. هذه الريح وهذا الجبل

    وأنا والمنتهى والأجل

    This wind, and this mountain,

    And I, and the end, and the appointed hour.

  16. وظلالي أدمع يسكبها

    وقيود قد رماها الجبل

    And my shadows are tears it sheds,

    And shackles the mountain has cast off.

  17. يوم ميلادي الذي قد نزلت

    فيه أيّامي وأهلي نزلوا

    On the day of my birth, when there descended

    my days, and my family descended,

  18. نصبّوا لي شمعة تحرسني

    ومشوا في ضوئها وارتحلوا

    They set up for me a candle to guard me,

    And walked in its light and departed.

  19. فإذا دقّ بصدري نفس

    قرعوا أجراسهم واعتزلوا

    So whenever a breath beat in my chest,

    They rang their bells and withdrew.

  20. هذه الريح وهذا الجبل

    وأنا والمنتهى والأجل

    This wind, and this mountain,

    And I, and the end, and the appointed hour.

  21. ها هي النار مشت صخرها

    في التماثيل دما يشتعل

    Behold the fire: it has made its rock walk

    within the statues, as blood that blazes.

  22. دثرّي جرحي فلا تطفؤه

    كلّ ريح جرحها مندمل

    Wrap my wound, for it cannot be quenched

    by any wind whose wound has healed.