يأيّها الراحِلُ المَشُوقُ إذا

أزعَجَه شوقُه إلى الوَطنِ

O you who travel with yearning, when

His longing for homeland troubles him,

أودَعْتُك القول والأَمانةُ لا

تُودَعُ إلاّ لِكلّ مؤتمَن

I entrusted you with words and trust, which

Are only entrusted to every trustworthy one.

بلّغ لِبغدادَ إِن حللتَ بها

عنّي بلاغَ المبلِّغِ الفَطِن

Convey to Baghdad, if you lodge therein,

From me an eloquent conveyance of messages

بأنّها السُّؤلُ والمُرادُ وإن

أَصبحَ في غيرِ أرضها بدني

That it is the question and the purpose, even if

My body is in other than its land in the morning,

وأنّه قد دنا البِعيدُ لنا

وحانَ مِنه ما كان لَم يَحِنِ

And that the distant one has come near for us

And what was not ripe has ripened from it.

وأحَرَّ شَوْقاه لِلحُلولِ بِها

وقد بَلَغْتُ المرادَ مِن زمني

And his longing to arrive therein was stirred,

And I have attained the purpose of my time.