مضى الأفضل المرجو للبأسِ والندى

وصحت على رغم العداة وفاته

The best hoped for is gone for valor and dew

Yet his enemies' spite could not make him rue

وما مات أو ماتت بحزنٍ نساؤه

وماتت بأحزان البلاد حماته

Nor did his women weep when he died

But his land mourned the loss of its pride