رعى اللَه بستاناً تجلت رياضُه

بوطء إلهٍ كان فيه مُرَبَّصا

God tended a garden where his meadows shone

With the tread of a God who therein did wait

وصلَّى صلاةً ضِمنَهُ كي يَضمَّنا

إليه ويمحو ما بنا قد تخصصنا

And prayed a prayer that He might us enfold

To Him and blot out all we had misshaped

وقدَّم عنا ذاته كي يُحيلَنا

إليه ويحبونا شفاءً ومَخلَصا

And for us offered up Himself that He

Might turn us to Him and love us, healed and saved

ولما رأى ما سوف نأتي من الخطا

تألَّم مما قد رآه تَفحُّصا

And when He saw what from our hands would come

He grieved for what He saw, examined close

وروَّى ثرى أقدامه عرقُ الشجى

وأظهر ضَعفَ الجسم ضعفاً مشخَّصا

And watered with tears the dust beneath His feet

Showing the weakness of the flesh, marked deep