طويتَ بسيطَ آمالي برفدٍ

كفاني أنْ أُؤمِّلَ ما سواهُ

You folded my simple hopes in abandonment,

It is enough for me to hope for what remains.

أقولُ وقد طويتُ به رجائي

ليطوِ كذا رجائي مَنْ طواهُ

I say, though I folded my hopes in it:

May my hopes fold this way for whoever folded them.