وَكَيفَ تَوارى البَحرُ في قعرِ مَلحدٍ

وَقَد كانَ لا يُلفى لِلجَّتِهِ قعرُ

How could the sea now disappear in the depths of a graveyard

When once no bottom could be found however far one plunged?

تَوارَت به تلك الجَلالةُ في الثَرى

كَما يَتوارى في ثَرى المعدن التبرُ

With him has vanished all splendour into the dust.

Just as ambergris lies buried in the clay of oceans.