Claude 2

  1. سَنَتِي كَيَوْمٍ بَلْ لَعَشْرِي سَاعَةٌ

    مَرَّ الزَّمَانُ عَلَيَّ كَالأَحْلامِ

    My years passed as a day, nay as an hour

    Time glided by me as dreams

  2. حُزْنٌ وَآلامٌ وَفَرْحٌ هَزَّنِي

    ذِكْرَى مَعِي وَكَأَنَّهَا أَوْهَامِي

    Sorrow, pain and joy shook me

    Memories with me as if they were my delusions

  3. قَدْ عِشْتُ أَحْزَانِي تَمُرُّ كَلِيلَةً

    وَالْفَرْحُ مَرَّ بِسُرْعَةِ الأَجْرَامِ

    I have lived my sorrows passing as a night

    And joy passed with the speed of planets

  4. فَإِذَا انْقَضَى الأَحْزَانُ زَالَ زَمَانُهَا

    لا فَرْقَ بَيْنَ الْفَرْحِ وَالآلامِ

    So when sorrows end, their time ends

    No difference between joy and pain

  5. أَيْقَنْتُ حِينِي أَنَّ عُمْرِي لَحْظَةٌ

    لا فَرْقَ بَيْنَ الْيَوْمِ وَالأَعْوَامِ

    I realized when my time has come that my life is a moment

    No difference between today and years

  6. مَضَتِ السِّنُونَ وَكُلُّهَا مِنْ لَحْظَتِي

    وَأَعِيشُ مُنْتَظِرًا عِنَاقَ حِمَامِي

    Years have passed and all of them are from my moment

    And I live waiting for the embrace of my loved one

  7. كَمْ مِنْ فَتًى عَاشَ الْحَيَاةَ كَأَنَّهُ

    لَمْ يَاتِ لِلدُّنْيَا كَمَا الأَنْعَامِ

    How many a young man lived life as if

    He did not come to the world like cattle

  8. وَفَتًى مُنَى الدُّنْيَا تَطُولُ حَيَاتُهُ

    كَالشَّمْسِ كَالأَنْهَارِ كَالأَعْلامِ

    And a young man whom the world bid farewell, his life lasts

    Like the sun, like rivers, like flags

  9. فَسَمَاؤُهَا تَبْكِيهِ حِينَ وَفَاتِهِ

    وَالأَرْضُ حَتَّى الأُسْدُ فِي الآجَامِ

    So its sky cries over him when he dies

    And the earth, even the lion in the thickets

  10. يَحْيَا بِذِكْرٍ يَبْعَثُ الأَحْرَارَ قَدْ

    صَارَتْ كَبَدْرٍ رُوحُهُ بِظَلامِ

    He lives in a mention that awakes the freemen as if

    His soul in the darkness became a full moon

  11. وَلَقَدْ رَأَيْتُهُمَا فَأَضْنَانِي الْمُنَى

    لَكِنَّ دَرْبَ الْحُرِّ دَرْبُ جِسَامِ

    And I have seen them both so the death attracted me

    But the path of the free is the path of firm bodies

  12. وَلَقَدْ هَوَيْتُ الْعَيْشَ رَاسًا لِلإِبَا

    فَهَدَمْتُ جُبْنِي وَابْتَنَيْتُ رِجَامِي

    And I have loved living daringly

    So I demolished my cowardice and built my goals

  13. فَالْعُمْرُ فِي ضَيْمٍ كَعُمْرٍ فِي الإِبَا

    وَالْمَوْتُ حُرًّا ذَاكَ كُلُّ مَرَامِي

    For living in misery is like living in daring

    And dying free that is all my purpose