يا غائِباً بِبِعادِهِ وَحِمامِهِ

جارَ الزَّمانُ عَلَيكَ في أَحكامِهِ

O you made absent by your distance and your death,

Time has wronged you in the judgments it decreed.

لِتَطُل لَيالي الدَّهرِ بَعدَكَ إِنَّهُ

سِيّانُ بَينَ صَباحِهِ وَظَلامِهِ

Long may the nights of Time endure after you—for

Its morning and its darkness are alike.

سَوَّدتُهُ في ناظِري كَأَنَّما

خُلِعَت لَياليهِ عَلى أَيّامِهِ

I have blackened it within my sight, as though

Its nights had been draped across its days.