ما لِهذا الدَهرِ أَبدى

ما لِهذا الدَهرِ أَبدى

لِلعُلا وَجهاً وَقاحا

لِلعُلا وَجهاً وَقاحا

What is it with this age? It has shown

Why must time always

What ails this Time, that it has revealed

glory a brazen face.

Show me its brazen face?

To high nobility a face of impudence,

فَأَراني عِبرَةً أَن

فَأَراني عِبرَةً أَن

دَمِيَ البَدرُ وَقاحا

دَمِيَ البَدرُ وَقاحا

Then it showed me, as a lesson, that

My tears like the bright moon

And shown me a warning lesson in that

the full moon bled—brazenly.

Shine brazenly on my face

The full moon has bled and festered.