والدهرُ هدَّ الظَهرَ بالحَدثانِ

ونفى الشجونَ وجاء بالأشجانِ

Time has bowed the back with sorrows

And banished the tender griefs, replacing them with despair

وأقامَ بالخُلدِ البلابِلَ خُلَّداً

وبريبِهِ قد طالما أشجاني

In this abode of eternity the nightingales sing on

And its tribulations have long made me mourn