ذَهب الحمّصُ وَالوَعدُ الَّذي

سَدَّ عَن إِنجازِهِ كُلَّ طَريق

The chickpeas are gone, and the promise which

Every path to fulfillment has been blocked

طالَ فيهِ المطلُ حَتّى إِنَّني

قَد تَمَثَّلتُ بِشعرِ اِبنِ حَريق

The waiting has been so long that I

Have embodied the poetry of Ibn Hariq