1. أظلت رياح الطارقات رواكدا

    أم انطبقت منها جفوناً رواقدا

    Have the winds of the night visitors remained still?

    Or have their slumbering eyelids closed?

  2. تحللت الأفلاك أم رأت دورها

    فصرنا حيارى قد ضللن المراشدا

    Have the celestial spheres come apart, or seen their course?

    So we have become bewildered; they have strayed from the right paths.

  3. كأن النجوم السائرات توقفت

    عن السير حتى ما بلغن المقاصدا

    It is as though the traveling stars have stopped

    traveling, so that they have not reached their destinations.

  4. ففي قلب بهرام وجيب وروعة

    وكيوان أعشى ليس يرعى المراصدا

    So there is throbbing and dread in Bahram's heart,

    And Kaywan is dim-sighted and does not watch over the lookout posts.

  5. لذاك تمادت دولة اللؤم وانبرت

    بنو الترك يبغون السماء مصاعدا

    Thus the reign of baseness has persisted, and forward have stepped

    the sons of the Turks, seeking stairways to the sky.