سلوتُ الرضاعَ والشبابَ كليهما

فكيف تُراني سالياً ما سواهما

I bid farewell to nursing and youth altogether,

So how can you see me shedding tears for anything but them?

وما أحدثَ العصران شيئاً نكرتُهُ

هما الواهبان الساليان هما هما

And I have rejected nothing new that the times have brought,

It is they who were the givers, they are the ones I miss!

رأيتُ احتسابَ الأمر قبل وقوعهِ

حمى مُقلتيَّ أن يطولَ بُكاهما

I saw how to cope with something before it happened,

I shielded my eyes so as not to prolong their weeping.