أَمسى الثَمانيَ وَالعشرينَ ثُمَ مَضى

وَهَكَذا عادةُ الأَقمار في الدُجَنِ

The twenty-eight waned, then passed away

Thus ever the course of moons in their mansions.

غَريبُ دارٍ مِن الأسكندريةِ قَد

وَلَّى إِلى دارِ عَرشٍ طابَ في السَكَنِ

A stranger I was in the land Alexandria,

But I turned me again to a home wellknown.

فاُتْلُ المَراحِمَ مَع مَن أَرَّخوهُ وَقُل

اليَومَ عادَ غَريبُ الدَّار لِلوَطنِ

Say then, "God's mercy on him who ensconced him!

To-day has the wanderer back to his birthplace gone."