خلقَت هَياكِلُها بِجَرعاءِ الحِمى

وَصَبت لِمَغناها القَديم تَشَوّقا

Her structures were created by the fever's flames,

And she poured out her yearning for the ancient tune.

مَحجوبَة سَفرت وَأَسفَر صُبحها

وَتَجَرَّدت عَمّا أَجدّ وَأَخلقا

Veiled, she journeyed, and her dawn broke free,

Stripping herself of all I own and make.

وَتَلَفّتت نَحوَ الدِّيارِ فَشاقَها

رَبع عَفَت أَطلالُهُ فتَمَزَّقا

She turned toward the homelands, but their slice of virtue

Razed her, its ruins fragmented, torn apart.

وَغَدَت تردّدُ في الفَضاءِ حَبيبها

فَيَروم مُرتَبِعاً يَروق المُرتقى

She came to echo through the firmament, calling her beloved,

Who squatted, hoping to ascend the heights.

وَقَفَت تُسائِلُه فَرَدَّ جَوابَها

رَجعَ الصَّدى أن لا سَبيلَ إِلى اللّقا

She stood questioning him, and he returned her answer -

The echo came: no way to reunite.

فَشَكَت بِعَينِ الحالِ مَعهَد عَهدِها

أَسَفاً عَلى شَملٍ مَضى وَتَفَرَّقا

With eyes that told the present state, she mourned their pledged troth,

Grieving over a union gone, dispersed.

فَكَأَنَّما بَرقٌ تَأَلّق بِالحِمى

ثُمَّ اِنطَوى فَكَأَنَّهُ ما أَبرَقا

As if a lightning flash had flickered in the flames

Then folded in, as though it never flashed.