هَذي العَروسُ فَتاةُ آلِ كَرامَةٍ

غَدرَت بِغَضِّ صِبائها الأَيّامُ

This bride, a maiden of the honorable family

Was betrayed by the passing days of her youth

باتَت مكفنةً بِثَوبِ زَفافِها

كَالبَدرِ قَد وارى سَناهُ غَمامُ

She lay shrouded in her wedding dress

Like the moon her beauty cloaked in clouds

تَرَكَت نِقولا مِن بَني توما وَفي

أَحشائه لِلنائِبات سِهامُ

She left Nicholas of the house of Thomas bereft

In his heart were arrows of sorrow

أَبقَت لَهُ طِفلاً يَئنُّ لِفَقدِها

فَتَزيدُ عِندَ بُكائِهِ الآلامُ

She left him a child who cries for her

Whose tears add to the pain

أَمَّت جِوارَ اللَهِ في تاريخِها

فَعَلى الشَفيقةِ رَحمَةٌ وَسَلامُ

She passed into the neighborhood of God on her date

Upon the sympathetic one, mercy and peace